I actually believe a lot of what he is saying about the culture of US intelligence agencies. I'd bet that there's little to none of people, for example, extorti

I actually believe a lot of what he is saying about the culture of US intelligence agencies. I'd bet that there's little to none of people, for example, extorting people by threatening to expose their fetish-porn habits. I'll even believe that the people who work there care about protecting privacy (insofar as one can when you work at an agency that keeps everybody's communications on hard drives). But there needs to be some oversight. There should be people from outside the Executive Branch with some actual power watching them. If you believe in the US's mass surveillance programs, then you should be willing to concede that, at the bare minimum, this much should happen. Of course, I don't think the mass collection should be going on at all. That data is too easily abused. If someone takes control of it who has less integrity, is less interested (or able) to prevent violation and corruption, then we have a massive problem. I believe this is what Snowden was referring to when he mentioned "turnkey tyranny".