Funny enough Google has great tools for searching within that time period. Snowden broke around Q1 2013 right? So I tried searching from Q4 2012 to Q1 2014 and

Funny enough Google has great tools for searching within that time period. Snowden broke around Q1 2013 right? So I tried searching from Q4 2012 to Q1 2014 and the first thing that came up on government surveillance was actually this[1]. Which I assume is not what you meant but it's pretty early in the timeline of Snowden's revelations. Setting the timeline to 2012-01-01 - 2013-07-03 is just before Greenwald broke Snowden's story and those results are very different. Interspersed are results that were likely updated in Google's index after july 3rd so there are some false positives so to speak. You'd have to browse more of those results. I've only got 3 pages in.[2] Edit: Actually this IAmA from Cory Doctorow could be it.[3] He's definitely in the know about what the government is capable of and speaking from that experience. Which pretty much predicts Snowden's revelations. Of course I remember when AT&T was implicated in mass surveillance by a former employee back around 2004, that story just got lost in the ether. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_... 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+government+surveillance&hl=en&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1/1/2012,cd_max:7/4/2013&ei=TyJ5XeX6EICDk74P-JawyAo&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwil3pjemcnkAhWAwcQBHXgLDKkQ8NMDCJkB&biw=1527&bih=1336 https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+%22IAmA%22+g... 3. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_doctorow_writer_blogger_and_activist_ama/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11bm9i/iam_cory_docto...