An interesting and quite sad link with lots of further leads and reads.
After reading quite a bit about the latest events and trying to piece most of it into a big picture I had to note once again the deep irony of the whole story. The sheer size of the dragnet, and its depth needed a greatly increased the number of people working on secret stuff. The fear to fail to connect the dots has seemingly increased the amount of sharing and more people know more about the national efforts. The gigantic scope and reach of certain programs, especially those involving your average citizien have increased the danger of employing people who might feel it morally justified to whistleblow.
If that happens the public echo might be big indeed and it can indeed seriously harm directly and indirectly the most important, the true key interests of a nation. At least some sources are saying that terrorist groups have changed their comm. patters and that certain methods will be much harder to pull off. While there are certainly political games involved there should be a certain amount of truth in those informations. So if the fight against terrorism has indeed been the main goal of those various efforts then the NSA&Co might have scored an own goal in that area as well.
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