Not really, it only lasted three years (started in '03, and was exposed by Mark Klein in '06). And more generally, that communications were being spied upon by

Not really, it only lasted three years (started in '03, and was exposed by Mark Klein in '06). And more generally, that communications were being spied upon by the NSA was public information for a long time. I first learned about it in a Spanish tech magazine back in 2000 or so (the great HackxCrack), but by then it was old news.