NSA Owns Everything (2015)
The basic premise is false.<p>> "Why did we never see it coming?"<p>Many people saw it coming. I was warning about the possibility of dragnet surveillance, the existence of ECHELON, the use of the American security apparatus to steal trade secrets, the surveillance of non-American politicians, et al... For many, many years before Snowden. And I'm just some rando on the internet who follows the mainstream news!<p>We were called _Conspiracy Theorists_; but when the action is _probably_ fact[0][1][2][3], why is it still ridiculed to say it might be happening?<p>0: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-german-chancellery-decades-wikileaks-claims-merkel" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g...</a><p>1: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON</a><p>2: <a href="https://fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.htm" rel="nofollow">https://fas.org/irp/program/process/991101-echelon-mj.htm</a><p>3: <a href="https://cryptome.org/echelon-cia2.htm" rel="nofollow">https://cryptome.org/echelon-cia2.htm</a>