“How can they escape? Snowden’s story confirms James Banford’s story. Bamford revealed all this in 2008. No one cared. Now, without warning, this is a hot story all over the Web. How does a company plausibly deny this? They are all going with a version of this one: ‘We never inhaled.’ In March, 2012, Wired ran Bamford’s story on the NSA’s huge complex in Utah: ‘The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say).’ It got some coverage, but there was no follow-through. Congress does not care. Congress funded it.”
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