This and this alone should be enough for the US Congress to ELIMINATE the NSA lock, stock and barrel. These arrogant unelected drones presume to spy on their alleged bosses, and the bosses’ elected representatives to boot?
Fire everyone in the agency, and seal the doors. The CIA and FBI can go back to doing what they were supposed to do.
And let it be a warning to the remainder of the alphabet agencies that their existence depends on the permission of THE PEOPLE.
....and every single employee of the agency blacklisted from working for government (Federal, State or Local), and ANY job related even tangentially to Information Technology, and ANY job involving Personally Identifying Information.
The employees knew damned well what they were signing on to.