Third: NSA whistleblowers have been stating what was more or less going on for years… (here's a talk by Binney from last November [0])

Funny enough, I wrote a post on this subject matter too before the Snowden leaks where I included the video as well…[1]

[0]: http://techtv.mit.edu/embeds/21783?html5=true&size=full&cust...

[1]: http://blog.pictobar.com/post/47787766458/why-so-silent