None of this was news since William Binney,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
who estimated "that the NSA (particularly through the Stellar Wind project) had intercepted 20 trillion communications 'transactions' of Americans (such as phone calls, emails, and other forms of data but not including financial data)" in the years following the 2005 James Riser NYTimes story.
IMO both journalism and the American people failed to pay adequate attention to this issue, both have gotten what they paid for, and the faux-surprise act of both is hilarious.
IMO both journalism and the American people failed to pay adequate attention to this issue, both have gotten what they paid for, and the faux-surprise act of both is hilarious.