I don't know why people are surprised by this. The FBI are a pack of small fry when it comes to spying on Americans. The NSA has all the three letter entities b

I don't know why people are surprised by this. The FBI are a pack of small fry when it comes to spying on Americans. The NSA has all the three letter entities beat and has been doing it for decades. "At home, however, the favored weapon employed is ignorance rather than fear. Like NSA headquarters itself, the United States is surrounded by barriers -- barriers of ignorance that keep its citizens prisoners of the cold war. The first obstacle is formed by the myths propagated about communism and about its aggressive designs on America. The second, and dependent for its rationale on the first, is the incredible barrier of governmental secrecy that keeps most of the questionable U.S. aggressive activities hidden nor from our "enemies," who are the knowledgeable victims, but from the American people themselves. The final barrier is perhaps the highest and is barbed with the sharpest obstacles of all. It is nothing less than our reluctance as Americans to confront what we are doing to the peoples of the world, ourselves included, by organizations like the National Security Agency." [0] [0] U.S. Electronic Espionage: A Memoir, Ramparts, Vol. 11, No. 2, August, 1972, pp. 35-50 https://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm https://cryptome.org/jya/nsa-elint.htm