Really, Americans can be the most naive people on earth.
Outside the US alternative reality bubble, the working assumption for governments, commercial entities, intelligence agencies and operatives of all persuasions is that the NSA intercepts, logs, mines and archives all telecommunications. Everthing gets run through DICTIONARY.
The NSA is not, in practice subject to Congressional oversight, nor is their budget. The higher classified operations of the NSA are not disclosed to anyone, other than on a needs to know basis. When a judicial warrant is issued, it is to allow for evidence to be presented in court, not because the information does not exist.
18 years ago NSA keys were found in Windows. 15 years ago Germany established off the net /grid communication systems because details of EU bids were being disclosed US corporations through the NSA. - Look it up.
When did Zuckerberg get his NSA brief that Facebook's operations needed to be consistent with US Security? These are administrative matters that do not go to the executive for approval.
There is no way - NO WAY - to break open the ultra-secret operations of some NSA departments without rendering those operations largely useless. Secrecy is No-Such-Agency's, Raison d'être and has been from day one.
Forget civil oversight or dismantle them (Not going to happen)
How may times does Eric Schmidt have to say "Privacy is Over". How many man hours does Google spend on keeping the NSA out of their data. ROFLMAO!!
