Stories about Snowden might be tech celebrity scandal, but stories about the NSA are not. And do you have any evidence that the Democratic Party is attempting a coverup here?
The evidence is that the DNP has media operations research down cold. They are the RAND Corporation of public dialog manipulation.
The evidence is that the DNP was caught actually doing things with the IRS that are 1000% worse than what the NSA is hypothesized to maybe have done. That they desperately need a way to cover it up, something spectacular and engaging to run in the press.
The evidence is that everybody knew the NSA has been doing this since the OSS days. The liberal kiddies voting up this Snowden crap weren't even alive for the running gag of Echelon surveillance in the 1990s, where everybody assumed the NSA was intercepting everything and that you might as well put in suspicious keywords to screw with them.
The evidence is that the NSA intercept rooms at telecom interchanges were well known for decades. Again, it is a running joke that the NSA controls entire rooms and even floors of majors interchanges.
So given the half-century long intel program, why is there now media saturation and 48 point headlines? The answer must be that somebody needs there to be a media circus, that somebody keeps feeding leaks and quid-pro-quos into the media machine. There are many organizations who have the capability to do it, like Johnson and Johnson, but most of them can be ruled out as getting no benefit. The one remaining org that needs a distraction is the DNP, to let the Benghazi, IRS, Syria, and other fiascos blow over.
