‘IT’S BEING USED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES’: NSA WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS GRAVE CONCERNS ABOUT DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM

NSA whistleblower Diane Roark appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program Tuesday both to discussRepresentative Michele Bachmann’s defense of the agency’s data-collection policies, and to speak about the program at large.

One of the issues discussed was the concern that once the government has the ability to gather information on virtually every American, that it’s only a matter of time before that information is used to intimidate or manipulate – particularly lawmakers and national figures whose decisions impact the entire country.

“Do you think that kind of stuff is happening yet?” Beck asked.

Roark responded: “I do believe that is happening. It’s being used for political purposes — it was used against the five of us [whistleblowers] for political purposes. We had done nothing wrong. They came after us and tried to find anything they could to get us in jail…They searched for seven years.”

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