NSA snooping: Obama under pressure as senator denounces ‘act of treason’

Barack Obama was facing a mounting domestic and international backlash against US surveillance operations on Monday as his administration struggled to contain one of the most explosive national security leaks in US history.Political opinion in the US was split with some members of Congress calling for the immediate extradition from Hong Kong of the whistleblower, Edward Snowden. But other senior politicians in both main parties questioned whether US surveillance practices had gone too far.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillanceAlso see:Fisaa law grants US ‘heavy-calibre mass surveillance firepower’
The sweeping US surveillance law that has allowed the British government to gather intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies has been denounced in Brussels as posing a “grave risk” to data protection and citizens’ rights.A report published last year by a key European parliament co-ordinating body says a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act (Fisaa) grants the US government what it describes as “heavy-calibre mass surveillance firepower” that could be brought to bear against individuals in Europe and elsewhere.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/fisaa-law-us-mass-surveillance