NSA Builds the Biggest Spy Center

[Rayaan]

Who has access and why the data is being stored should be questioned.

Definitely.

But, unfortunately, it might be pretty difficult to get honest answers to such questions. Why? Because the government will try to silence those who tell the truth. This means that if anyone reveals some kind of a secretive information about the US government's plans, now there is a likelihood that they will be prosecuted or even imprisoned for being a "whistleblower," like the whistleblower Edward Snowden who revealed the NSA's top-secret surveillance programs and is being charged with three felonies for doing so.

Before Snowden's revelations about the NSA secrets, there was a whistleblower protection law written in a website called Change.gov, which was the official site of the the US Presidential transition. Shortly after Snowden's whistle blowing about the NSA, however, the whistleblower protection disappeared from the website ... which can still be viewed on the Wayback archive. So, Obama first promised that he would protect whistleblowers, but now he is doing the opposite.

Yet during Mr. Obama’s first term, a record number of national security officials were prosecuted for allegedly leaking classified information to the press, a zeal that continues today, with aggressive tactics employed to locate officials who leaked information to Fox News and The Associated Press.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/opinio....html?_r=0