>Who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything that happens on the Internet and millions of US

>Who would have believed anyone last year if you told them the NSA was collecting metadata on almost everything that happens on the Internet and millions of US citizen's phone records etc? Anybody who was paying attention and had heard of Mark Kline and William Binney. The whole NSA story isn't new. Part of what makes Edward Snowden's leak of documents as powerful as it does is that it corroborates many stories that former intelligence officers have told about the internal workings of the agency.