The Single Best Overview of What the Surveillance State Does With Our Private Data

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-single-best-overview-of-what-the-surveillance-state-does-with-our-private-data/280411/

Their distortions continue in part because no matter how many times President Obama, NSA Director Keith Alexander, Clapper and others egregiously mislead the public in their statements about surveillance, news organizations treat them as honest men and report on subsequent statements as if they're presumptively true. For all these reasons, journalists who take the time to understand the truth and the way government officials are distorting it find that their work has just begun. They need to find comprehensible ways to explain complicated distortions, even as more hard to understand information becomes public each week. Absent this asymmetry, surveillance-state critics would be in a much stronger position.