My 'know everything' comment was a slight exaggeration for effect. I didn't say they fabricate evidence (you said that) or that they divulge their secrets to ev

My 'know everything' comment was a slight exaggeration for effect. I didn't say they fabricate evidence (you said that) or that they divulge their secrets to every prosecutor (those are your words, portrayed as mine). You have a good point though that maybe my comment is not constructive. I don't wish for this to become a cliche response on HN that it 'must have been the NSA' but we must acknowledge that they posses powers of surveillance the world has never before seen (except if you believe in God... however, we actually have architecture diagrams and proof of the NSA technology... not just 'The Book of Edward'). But yeah, it's dangerous to dismiss the NSA entirely and dangerous to make it a given they're more powerful than they are. However, given their secrecy, that's all a fairly expected situation for us.