Prism

http://www.spiegel.de/international/euro...08614.html

Okay that's the last straw. If this world was fair, US officials would've long been in International Court of Justice for not just spying but torture (eg. quantanamo & abu ghraib) and jailing nonconformists+whistleblowers.

When stuff like this comes out, it really makes you question what kind of hypocrites the people in US goverment are, to go on war for democracy and constitutional state, when the USA itself is the very travesty of all that.

If the ICJ is anything like the ICC, if the country is investigating it or prosecuting it already, the ICC (or ICJ in this case) cannot persecute them further. Of course, that is predicated on whether or not the ICJ's jurisdiction is complementary.

Spoke with my mother today (background: she works cyber communications and security for the Navy and is usually first or second in command where she's stationed) and she sees Snowden as a traitor (and also called him a slurry of other things). She's worked with NSA frequently and has first-hand account of the information used and how it has been used. She commented that what happens with the information frequently doesn't make the news because it catches things before they're too late (she elaborated by saying "unless you have clearance you wouldn't know it had happened or was going to happen at all"). She did say that many of these firms collect information anyways, regardless of whether or not the government asks, and then sells the information for marketing purposes, which she doesn't care for and would rather not have happening.