Prism

Don't get me wrong. I don't think Obama did anything wrong. I was saying the points republicans will probably go after. I've talked to conservatives and they think they have found a smoking gun with these two events. :/

It's not a smoking gun because the vast majority of the public don't care, and won't care no matter what happens, unless it directly involves them. Not just "data mining", not even just getting questioned by government officials, the only way most people will ever care is if the are severely, SEVERELY inconvenienced due to it. Like, concentration camp level "inconvenienced". And I don't think that will be happening, that's not in the current control model our government is using.

It would be a smoking gun if everyone cared to the same extent that those small groups do, but people these days seem to have the built-in defense mechanism of "roll over and eventually it will go away".