Before Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013, claims that the NSA was monitoring millions of Americans' communications were widely dismissed as paranoid speculation. The PRISM program and bulk metadata collection were confirmed through classified documents leaked by Snowden.
The NSA was conducting mass surveillance on American citizens' phone and internet communications
βThe NSA has created a surveillance network that has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all US Internet traffic.β
π The Receipts
βοΈ The Record, Side by Side
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β³ The Vindication Timeline
From βcrazyβ to confirmed
The Claim Is Made
This is the moment they called it crazy.
Confirmed: They Were Right
The truth comes out. Officially documented.
Confirmed: They Were Right
The truth comes out. Officially documented.
π How Right We Were
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