For a while after Snowden's leaks were first beginning to be published, the US Governement position on the issue was something like "stop whining about PRISM, w

For a while after Snowden's leaks were first beginning to be published, the US Governement position on the issue was something like "stop whining about PRISM, we are only doing blanket surveillance of foreigners". They have since stopped saying that, perhaps because the companies involved in PRISM complained that they were scaring away their customers.