[achughes]

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...

and

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

It was hardly a conspiracy theory.

[na85]

Perhaps the point was that they were derided as being mere conspiracy theories?

[talmand]

Since I failed to mention the number of years I was referring to, I meant further back than last year.