That is the definition of a ubiquitous surveillance state -- and it's been built in the dark, without the knowledge of the American people or people around the world, even though it's aimed at them. How anyone could think this should have all remained concealed -- that it would have been better had it just been left to fester and grow in the dark -- is truly mystifying.
Perhaps the coining of a punchy phrase by the Washington Post to describe all of this -- "collect it all" -- will help those DC media figures who keep lamenting their own refusal to cover the substance of the NSA stories begin to figure out why they should cover the substance and how they can. The rest of the world is having no trouble focusing on the substance of these revelations -- rather than the trivial dramas surrounding the person who enabled us to know of all this -- and discussing why those revelations are so disturbing. Perhaps US media figures can now follow that example.
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