Paul Owen 

NSA collection of Verizon phone records sparks angry reaction

Here's a round-up of reactions to the revelation that the NSA is collecting phone records of millions of US Verizon customers
  
  

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Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

The Guardian revealed on Thursday that the National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of a division of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top-secret court order issued in April. Here we round-up some of the reaction to the story from Twitter.

From Al Gore, former US vice-president:

Colorado senator Mark Udall, who has long been vocal about the scope of the Obama administration's surveillance activities, spoke out Thursday morning: 

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer served under president George W Bush from January 2001 to July 2003. 

From Martin Varsavsky of Columbia University:

From Matt Apuzzo of the Associated Press who, along with his editor, Ted Bridis, was among a group of journalists from that organisation whose phones had been seized by the US government in a widely reported terrorism probe:

From senator Bernie Sanders, the longest-serving independent senator in US congress who has voted against extensions of the Patriot Act: 

From American Civil Liberties Union lobbyist Michelle Richardson:

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof: 

From Jon Swaine of the Daily Telegraph:

From CNN host Piers Morgan:

From Charlotte Greensit, former senior editor at Time magazine:

From Politico’s Alex Byers:

Guy Benson, politics editor of US conservative magazine Townhall: 

Foreign Policy blogger Brian Fung: 

 

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