This whole "scandal" is a tempest in a teapot stirred up by the privacy fear-mongering industry. There is nothing to suggest any wrongdoing by any NSA personne

This whole "scandal" is a tempest in a teapot stirred up by the privacy fear-mongering industry. There is nothing to suggest any wrongdoing by any NSA personnel involved (except for Snowden). No harm of this NSA program to any US individual has ever been demonstrated, let alone proven. No proof of any abuse whatsoever. What we have here is a publicity-seeker with a sensationalist story blown out of proportion to drive pageviews, at the cost of undermining and compromising the program that has successfully foiled terrorist plots. Manufactured outrage drives modern media. We should be thanking the designers and operators of PRISM. http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/06/07/Foiled-2009-Plot-Involved-Emails-Sent-to-an-Al-Qaeda-Email-Account http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/06/07/Foiled-2009-Pl... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/mining-of-data-is-called-crucial-to-fight-terror.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/us/mining-of-data-is-calle... PS: It is also pretty funny how the people who claim to be standing up for our liberties rush to downvote opinions different from their own