Both supporters and opponents of Snowden's actions can agree on one thing

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10. Why are we required to agree on that?

We know little about it. The metadata on phone calls is all that we know of that is new; before that we didn't have anyone complaining that it was that vast and right now we don't have any facts about how many people are involved in it. Of course the program was secret, that was the whole basis of the outrage. We only know of it because of someone who broke the law. No one was even worried about it before: what if the government has access to a phone company's records?

There was never any worry about the NSA and what it might do during the Bush Administration.