Brilliant.

Could be a comedy, sounds a bit like Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Anyone can ask Snowden questions, it's going on right now: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun…

Glenn Greenwald just announced on Twitter:

The EFF has collected a bunch of ways average users can "opt-out of Prism" with simple changes like browser add ons to more complex steps like switching your operating system, cleverly entitled Prism-Break:

This is interesting, from National Geographic's article on Utah's Spy City:

"His calculations indicate that the NSA would need 4,355 square feet to store the call data..."

So you are describing the MAINWAY system, and he's talking about NUCLEON? As described in the Washington Post yesterday?

We are, we have been for a while, but this looks the start of our country finding our way out of the fog.

Will Binney, who quit the NSA because of what was happening, has been saying the same.

James Clapper, The Director of National Intelligence, used this example when being interviewed by NBC:

The CNET article also gives us an idea of the NSA's practical capability to store data:

A source told NPR that the data can only be held for 5 years, and confirmed individual queries (fish) do not require reahuthorization by the secret court:

So that's the crux of where the subsequent reporting on the NSA leaks, and the conflicting testimony of Mueller to Nadler meet. I want to try to simplify it as an analogy:

Here's a cspan video of the exchange:

And we're finally getting a picture of the structure beneath all the carefully chosen admissions/denials from Clapper. Marcy Wheeler's blog made an excellent point about the recent AP story:

This gives context to what another Congresswoman present at the NSA briefing came out saying:

Throwing flash grenades into a crowd of people trying to help someone who is hurt is not police work:

To clarify: When you said "Its a policing function, because historically activist turn into domestic terrorists." I informed you that it is not only untrue, but categorically Totalitarian.

As a more recent example: