-- By Tom Phillips
Republican
Congressman Peter King, former chairman of the Homeland Security
committee, says it came as a complete surprise when a 29-year-old intelligence
analyst went public with the news that the National Security Agency is collecting
the phone records of millions of Americans.
How could this happen? King wondered.
Were there warning signs? Were
there issues in his background?
Others were not so surprised. With a criminal investigation underway
against NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, and a court-martial in progress against
25-year-old army private Bradley Manning, who released a huge archive of
military secrets to Wikileaks, it has become clear that the greatest threat to
America’s security is not al Qaeda, or Iran, or any foreigners. It is Americans under thirty. You just can’t trust them.
