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tico, one of the problems of "simply showing the American population that they're surveilled quite a bit in ways that might surprise them," is that the government continued to lie and deny, and no pressure would have developed to do anything at all.  The thing that is incredibly unfortunate is that so many secrets exist in the first place and that the government was doing so much $hit it was lying to us about, and would STILL be lying to us about if not for Snowden.

In 1775, the terrorists were the Founding Fathers.

The real concern of the federal government is not so much foreign invasion, or even another idiot underwear bomber.

The real concern is that enough people become sick of what the federal government is doing that they internally, domestically, organize another revolution and truly throw the bums out.... and Big Brother is determined not to allow that possibility.