I watched some documentary about this PRISM surveillance on Netflix last year.
In the doc, they’ve got some guy who worked a. Bell or ATT saying “On the 11th floor of the switchboard building they built out a new secure section. Basically, the main fiber optic lines are routed thru a ‘splitter’ which copies/mirrors all telecom traffic and routes the copy ‘somewhere’ to some govt agency.”
After that, they show the huge radio antenna dishes over in Cheltenham UK or whatever that town is.
Difference is, until last month the federal govt wasn’t known to be persecuting American citizen Christians, Jews, TEA members.
Suddenly Americans have just realized, “By terrorists, the White House means US.”
This!