made those in good faith by everything known to me, and came to realize, eventually, that a nondisclosure agreement in this case and secrecy conflicted with oath to defend and support the constitution of the united states, and was superseding authority there with a responsibility to inform the public because as he said, he could see nobody else would do it. he saw the head of the nsa but also the director of the intelligence -- national intelligence who was quoted lied to congress, and what he is mostly revealed in particular is not that mr. oathper was violating his in the sense of trying to deceive congress, but that he knew that the false statements that they were not collecting data on millions of americans

data on millions of americans were false, and he knew congress knew they were false that, the people that he was talking to. what we saw is that we could not rely on the oversight committee of congress to reveal, even when they knew they were being lied to, and that is because they were bound by secrecy, nasa secrecy and -- nsa secrecy and their own rules. it has totally corrupted the checks and balances on which our democracy depends. enam grateful to edward snowd for having given us a constitutional crisis, a crisis instead of a silent coup, as after 9/11. he has confronted us.

constitutional crisis, a crisis instead of a silent coup, as after 9/11. he has confronted us. he has revealed documents that prove that the oversight process, both in the judiciary and in the secret court and secret committees in congress who keep their secrets from them, even when two them, widen and udall felt these were unconstitutional, but did not feel they could inform their colleagues or staff of this. what edward snowden has revealed is a broken system and he has given us the opportunity to get it back, to retrieve our civil liberties, the more than that to retrieve the separation of powers on which our democracy depends. daniel ellsberg, what about