i think this is important and this follows an open letter that the major technology companies took out in the biggest u.s. newspapers last week saying that the nsa s dragnet surveillance practices, they are collected all now, hope that the authority follows and maybe it will be relevant some day practices, are not just bad for civil liberties but bad for their business. they are jeopardizing their global businesses and hurting our economy. look, i think that adding their voices to the chorus of groups and individuals calling for reform could be critical and might even be decisive. i want to say, just to respond quickly to jeff, today he s calling snowden devious. before, he denied he was a whistleblower because he hadn t exposed any illegality. today a federal judge disagreed. it s premature for people to say that snowden had not exposed legal programs when, until today, we hadn t had a real court with a real process weigh in on whether that was the case.