NSA reform and Snowden Parks.

The Administration and Congress now circulate and leak various draft proposals aimed at reforming NSA, from purely cosmetic to more substantial. One approach that may be somewhat effective with limited disruption is to amend NSA mandate to make it an agency responsible for protecting Americans’ privacy.

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As for Snowden, he already seems to have achieved the impossible, with the numerous reform proposals and at least limited public debate. Although Time didn’t name him its Person-of-the-Year, which I’d rather prefer, he perhaps would be best remembered as a Rosa Parks of the budding Anti-Surveillance Civil Rights movement (break the law, provide the spark).