Amazing how almost none of the pro-Snowden pundits even bother to mention that the purpose of NSA programs is to protect the US from terrorist plots.

You may think it’s overkill and crazy and the wrong solution, and I might not argue too much with that, because it kind of is.

But all these people talk about it as if these programs came into existence just because the US government is evil and wants to read your emails with the cat pictures.