The US government's massive collection of data is useless for catching terrorists because it makes the haystack bigger for the needles to hide in. More precisely, they can't begin to evaluate all the data they get. They got very suggestive evidence about the September 2001 attacks and did nothing with it.

The House of Representatives voted once again in favor of imprisoning people (even Americans in the US) without trial.

They have effectively declared war on the US.

Leaked: the NSA's suggested talking points in support of massive surveillance.

A whistleblower claims Microsoft has hired people to vote on Reddit in Microsoft's favor.

Misguidedly loyal Democrats defend massive surveillance because Obama likes it; meanwhile, some Republicans have started condemning it, and never mind that they loved it when Dubya was doing it.