I'm surprised that people believed that American intelligence agencies didn't collect and misuse all the personal information they could on their own citizens as well as foreign entities before Snowden showed more proof. The FBI, for example, was caught collecting blackmail on "subversives" back in J Edgar Hoover's time, are people that naive that this was perceived as an outlier?
Not to say more evidence isn't useful, but mostly all it did was enable the wackdoodle conspiracy nuts to use as propaganda and reinforcement of their fantastical beliefs; it's not enough that the Americans are untrustworthy hypocrites (but with good intentions!), the Deep State has to have ill-defined but definitely malevolent designs on our precious bodily fluids.
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