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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: XKEYSCORE: NSA’s Search Engine for the World’s Private Communications

Worthy of note: Everything revealed by Snowden/Greenwald was postulated by James Bamford in 2009 based on publicly-available information.

Not saying the NSA's actions aren't a terrible breach of trust and a clear indicator that they need greater oversight. Am saying that casual observers have been unsurprised, and that the scope of the NSA's behavior has not been difficult to discern.