Is it that large of a scale as far as leak-locations go? Isn't it basically several dozen fibre taps? Also, we knew the FBI was doing this in the 90s so it sho

Is it that large of a scale as far as leak-locations go? Isn't it basically several dozen fibre taps? Also, we knew the FBI was doing this in the 90s so it shouldn't be totally surprising to find the NSA doing it now. The scale is the awesome data processing and operative capabilities. But is that so surprising to remain secret? I'm sure the NSA and other parts of big governments do all sorts of nifty shit and manage to keep it quite much longer than a decade.