This isn't a reaction to Snowden so much as the EFF's ongoing FOIA lawsuit explicitly seeking release of the documents, which are still pretty heavily redacted.

This isn't a reaction to Snowden so much as the EFF's ongoing FOIA lawsuit explicitly seeking release of the documents, which are still pretty heavily redacted. (Among the blackouts: the name of an official that briefed FISA court judges, the number of years that the Bush warrantless wiretap program had proceeded without judicial sanction, and solid pages of blackout apparently characterizing what it collected.) See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/victory-government-release-more-nsa-documents-and-fisa-court-opinions-response-eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/victory-government-rel... on the lawsuit. Clapper may claim instead that the release was the result of a sudden dedication to openness, but he did also claim before Congress that there was no ongoing widespread surveillance of Americans at all.