[jrochkind1]

So this was just a pre-interview not originally meant for publication; I assume we will be getting evidence and details on these things with documents yet to be released. This is just like a summary preview.

But I didn't see any implication in this interview that they were doing it on everyone, universally, by default. Rather, Snowden specifically says this is what happens to a targetted person, he some of the ways you become targetted are "because of a Facebook profile or because of your emails", presumably certain keywords or profile or whatever. Then he says the 'monitoring' which completely takes over your computer is done to 'targetted' people.

I too am very curious to learn: How many such targetted people with malware-monitored computers there are, how often this is done; is it done to computers in the US and/or to US citizens; what sorts of suspicion lead to this targetting; what warrants or court orders or other judicial oversight there are on individual monitoring cases; among other things.

I am now eagerly awaiting release of documentation or evidence on these issues.