However, this big PR outrage will probably have them come to their senses and crumble down the NSA workforce. Checks and balances. This seems extremely optimis

However, this big PR outrage will probably have them come to their senses and crumble down the NSA workforce. Checks and balances. This seems extremely optimistic to me. If you're assuming these people joined up because of good marketing by the government, how can you possibly argue that a "big PR outrage" will be an easy and immediate knock on the head resulting in "oh hey, this is terrible?" I don't doubt that some of the people in these positions were lured in with the promise of helping America or Americans. But at this point they live in the machine. They are its cogs and wheels. That's a very different situation from those of us on the outside looking in, thinking how black and white it all is. The government and parts of the media are still managing to convince many people -- people who don't work for the government at all -- that this is actually not a bad thing. The idea that they're not concentrating time and resources to keeping the faithful in the fold is unfathomable to me. Some might see this and bail. But I think many more are somewhere along the spectrum from convinced to brainwashed.