Gore Says NSA Surveillance Violates the Constitution

Former Vice President Al Gore told The Guardian that the National Security Agency’s secret telephone data collection program violates the Constitution.

Said Gore: “I quite understand the viewpoint that many have expressed that they are fine with it and they just want to be safe but that is not really the American way. Benjamin Franklin famously wrote that those who would give up essential liberty to try to gain some temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”