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Five months after whistle blower Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s program to spy on US citizens, new information shows an even more massive spy network operating on a vast global scale. Recently released documents show that European governments which had originally feigned outrage when they learned that the US government was spying on their citizens, were actually conducting similar operations under the guidance of Britain’s intelligence agency GCHQ.

Intelligence agencies in Germany, France, Spain, Sweden and the US have been engaged in mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic over the past five years and data is being gleaned not only with the cooperation of telecommunication companies but also by tapping directly into fiber optic cables.

Meanwhile, countries like India, Australia, China and Japan have also been found to be targets of US spying and Germany and Brazil are now calling on the United Nations to draft a resolution demanding the right to online privacy. Secretary of State John Kerry has been frantically trying to appease world leaders saying that the program went too far and was “on autopilot.”

Kerry says senior White House officials were unaware of the extent of the program, but Reuters just reported that President Obama only put a stop to eavesdropping on the IMF and World Bank only in the past few weeks.

GUEST: Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Visit Buttar’s organization at www.bordc.org.