As Edward Snowden's father, Lon, arrives in Moscow to try to visit his
son, we speak to American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director
Anthony Romero about Snowden and the significance of his leaks about the
National Security Agency. "Edward Snowden has done this country a
service," Romero says. "He has kickstarted a debate that we didn't have.
This debate was anemic." Hossam Bahgat of the Egyptian Initiative for
Personal Rights adds, "We are all affected by the NSA program. We cannot
do our work in Egypt, in Canada or Israel or Kenya when we cannot
communicate, when we know our emails could be intercepted by the United
States security apparatus."
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