(7.6.2013) Bamford asserted that the facility, called the Utah Data Center, „is, in some measure, the realization of the ‚total information awareness‘ program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.“

Must ordinary Americans accept this degree of surveillance? How can we ensure that the government won‘t abuse its enormous power to spy on us? Can we counter it, perhaps by spying on the spies?