[mithaler]

So you automatically assume any allegation leveled against the government to be true until someone in the government spends effort disproving it?

Is it really so much to ask that we criticize the government for things that we know it actually did?

[fnordfnordfnord]

Evidence is mounting that agencies within the US gov't are up to no good. Given that the main one is the NSA, an agency with a fair amount of expertise at keeping secrets; it shouldn't be a surprise that great smoking guns of evidence aren't bursting from within the place.

[hobs]

Not any, definitely not all, but the government's lack of transparency and recent actions means that we doubt it to the core. Also, "we know it actually did" is a terrifying thought when the government decides to hide whatever it wants whenever it wants. How will we ever know?