Reddit, Who deserves the "Damn, they really were right" award?

I'm not saying this in an elitist way but people just don't pay attention. They are busy, uninterested, ignorant and sometimes dumb.

The US courts were making regular rulings that were making these major expansions of powers based on the language in the patriot act. The US was building themselves a tool, I believe in 2006 there were numerous reports on the construction of a massive and I mean MASSIVE data facility in Salt Lake. The only reasonable conclusion, based on the sheer scale of the NSA projects was that they were storing mass surveillance data.

When you have billions going into data storage sites, the consistent push in the legal system for surveillance powers (which were successful everytime) and throw in the odd whistleblower, it was painfully obvious.

The real information on this stuff is in written material and it often doesn't come to light until long after someone found out. Look into almost all of these major corruption scandals, you'll find that there were a few people who made it their business to get the story out for years before anyone ever payed attention.

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