Obama lied when he said, "I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA cannot target your e-mails."

By contrast, Clapper this time played a word game, making a statement that didn't really mean what it appeared to mean.

The NSA saves all communications that it "happens to collect" that are encrypted or use Tor.

If you are using encryption because you're discussing committing a crime, and you never want it to come out, that might be of concern to you. As for those of us that use encryption on general principles to reduce massive surveillance, I don't think we should let this deter us.

I'd like to clear up some erroneous information about where I stand that is circulating on 4chan and perhaps elsewhere.

A journalist reports of a visit to Guantanamo, where he was not allowed to talk to any prisoners and hardly even allowed to see them.

The guards say the prisoners are lying when they talk about the horrible conditions, but did not allow the journalist to check for himself, so I believe the prisoners.

The Snowden Principle — and how the authorities and their pets respond every time it is applied.

The accusations against Snowden say his revelations will "be used to the injury of the United States", but Obama's War on Journalism is what's doing the US injury.

The NSA can easily afford to store recordings of all the phone calls made in the US.