[pstuart]

Do you get paid to shill for the establishment or is it just for the lulz? Maybe you get a Junior G-Man badge and a code name?

The NSA has every incentive to spy on everyone -- that's their job. The only "oversite" they have is by a toothless committees that will rubber-stamp anything they do.

Do you really trust the government to always do the right thing? Even with historical evidence of continual abuses of such power?