Why must you record my phone calls?

Why must you record my phone calls?

Are you planning a bootleg LP?

You said you’ve been threatened by gangsters

Now it’s you that’s threatening me.

. . .

Don’t offer us legal protection

They use the law to commit crime.

I dread to think what the future will bring

When we’re living in real gangster time.

Today’s Fresh Air interview with journalist Bart Gellman, on Edward Snowden, NSA’s PRISM program, and post-Sept. 11 surveillance.

also: from AP/Salon, Wired, Reuters, the Guardian, Slate, the New Yorker, & KSL