James Comey's threat to resign blocked the NSA's massive surveillance only until it found another legal excuse for that surveillance. That one, he accepted, it appears.

The NSA systematically collected email metadata about everyone in the US for two years under Obama.

This apparently included every communication between people whose identity the NSA did not know (since in that case it would not have known that either party was a US citizen).

Mass protests are called for Sunday in Egypt, by the group that has got 15 million signatures on a petition for Morsi's resignation.

Ecuador stood up to US threats to cancel a trade treaty by cancelling it unilaterally.

In addition, Ecuador offered the US aid in human rights training.

The New York Thug Department gave CIA agents an excuse to spy on Americans. And their attitude is, the more people they spy on, the better.

Massive US infiltration of dissident groups is covered by limits that turn out to be quite weak. And there is evidence that infiltrators have intentionally started violence to discredit protests.