If someone lies to your face for years and, only when caught red-handed, claims that what he/she is doing isn't all that bad, would you believe them?
It's worse than that. Not only does the U.S. government expect us to believe the content of our communications are safe from their eyes unless we "have something to hide", they're about to come down hard on the whistle-blowers that made them admit as much as they have. It's as if that red-handed thief were quietly shoving the person who caught them out a window while telling us a story about how it's not what it looks like!
It's worse than that. Not only does the U.S. government expect us to believe the content of our communications are safe from their eyes unless we "have something to hide", they're about to come down hard on the whistle-blowers that made them admit as much as they have. It's as if that red-handed thief were quietly shoving the person who caught them out a window while telling us a story about how it's not what it looks like!
What a crock.