The First Time the Government Disclosed a FISA Court Opinion in Response to a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit
When assessing Snowden's impact, it's fun to dig back into old newspapers (old = 2013) and refresh our freak-out about the scale of surveillance that Snowden helped uncover. From the Washington Post: "The redacted 85-page opinion, which was declassified by U.S. intelligence officials on Wednesday, states that, based on NSA estimates, the spy agency may have been collecting as many as 56,000 “wholly domestic” communications each year."