From Greenwald’s hyperbolic Morning Joe appearance ~5 days ago:

MSNBC Video

GG: “What the NSA is, we are putting trillions of dollars into developing extremely sophisticated technology, the idea, the objective of this, is to enable the NSA to monitor every single conversation and every single form of human behavior anywhere in the world. If that is something we want our government to be doing we should have an open debate about that, not have it done in secret.”