The disclosure of NSA data-mining with complicit internet giants should be raising some fundamental questions---dare I say raise some very red flags--- in the minds of Americans. We claim as a nation to believe in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, yet we have since 9-11 frittered away these rights to an ever growing, secret government within our government.
Numerian (at the AGONIST) makes the point that Pres Obama has at once told us he doesn't know if these allegations of wrong-doing are true, but the NSA is our snoop and therefore our rights are secretly secure just as if they were publicly secure. What a tic! He just said he didn't know of any wrong-doing. How could he also no there's no problem?
This is a good synopsis.
http://agonist.org/the-death-of-the-internet/#more-106840