NSA documents on Cryptome 1996-2006: http://cryptome.org/nsa-cryptome.htm Not surprising that this issue keeps getting suppressed by pretending it is either unknown or long-known. Both techniques aim to whipsaw public attention into bored indifference, movie Ally of the State. But every patient librarian and promoter knows this is why libraries were invented and loathed in concert with breaking news and gossip -- now combined in the impatient, intolerant, trigger-happy, drone-anonymous reputation-flaunting-and-killing internet. The indignation racket. Insensate by insatiability. In a few weeks the terms NSA and Snowden have over-numbed the buzz competition.