Yet another article from a guy who thinks this is "new" and something Obama did... do these people even do research anymore? These programs and programs like this all date back to before the cold war. There's ones that get shutdown, new ones that pop up, and others that get renamed, but they are always there. And it's not just the NSA. It's the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, and every branch of the military. But reading that article was painful because he kept mentioning how it "just happened", and "now that Obama has done this" type statements. Ugh. Do some more research Mr. author, this is nothing new, and nothing Obama "created", it's just one of the man iterations of the same intelligence gathering policies that have been going on since we were trying to find Ruskie spies hiding amongst us decades ago. This author is dense at best, and honestly seems like he wrote his article based off of Reddit comments or some other equally shitty source. I feel like a broken record replying to all these NSA articles.