It&#x27;s barely been twelve hours - too soon for the results of any real investigation to have influenced the editorials coming out. What we&#x27;re hearing is the positions that were prepared prior to the attacks themselves.<p>It&#x27;s possible that the perpetrators evaded surveillance with encryption. It&#x27;s also possible that the perpetrators did have their phones tapped, but investigators dropped the ball. It&#x27;s possible that they avoided phones and did all their planning in person. It&#x27;s even possible that someone made an executive decision to not intervene and stop them, for political reasons.<p>As far as I know, none of Snowden&#x27;s criticisms have been addressed at French organizations. While there&#x27;s some possibility US intelligence agencies could have picked up on this, it&#x27;s primarily a European matter and not the NSA&#x27;s responsibility. This makes Snowden&#x27;s having undermined the NSA quite unlikely to have been relevant.