Not surprised

Perhaps it's studying history or the overreach of governments over centuries, but I am not the least bit shocked that the NSA has pretty much every phone call, purchase, and status update I have made. Over the past seven years.  Is it fair...no.  Is it legal... I can imagine somewhere in the ominous vague language of the patriot act they can easily prove legality.  Does it stand against the principles of the freedom we as Americans tout at having in abundance...yes.  Am I highly annoyed, I have been for a while when it comes to this stuff.  We fear the next 9/11 and I get it because people do not realize that terrorist acts happen on more regular intervals in other places, and have for a really really long time and we are lucky because that method of activism isn't as common in the US.  But... Overreaching security and giving up freedoms in the name of security is the exact opposite of the democratic ideal.  That sort of behavior is exactly what terrorists want...it is why after 9/11 Bin Laden celebrated in videos that they had success.  I may have voted for Obama, but he doesn't get a pass for keeping this stuff up on his watch. I am mad about the privacy stuff, but a lot of the population has let it happen and now it's kind of out of control...perhaps as long as people like Skahill and Greenwald publish this stuff, we will at least have an active voice against it...but a lot of people truly do not mind.