"Biggest operation" can mean many things. Just consider the time spent on TV, the time by pundits spent rationalizing it, the time spent in secret discussions

"Biggest operation" can mean many things. Just consider the time spent on TV, the time by pundits spent rationalizing it, the time spent in secret discussions with allies, the INCREDIBLY HUGE budgets, the vast network of stationed weapons and personel, the vast network of snoops, the ripple effect it had and has on authoritative regimes all over the world ("living in a post-9/11 world" you say? cut me a piece of that!), and the vulture corporations getting in on all that. And then there is the fact that with the current trajectory it will go on forever, as we've been proudly been told from day one. Though I wouldn't call that "Obama's campaign", he did expand it, and he is currently responsible for it continuing while he wards of clouds that could rain on the parade.