The US Government seems to have itself in a pickle with its citizens. First, there was an alleged leak regarding blanket acquisitions of metadata from Verizon on all phone calls. Shortly afterwards, the President responded to the public summarized simply as, "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls." Even the DNI responded with a statement as well covering the legality of the surveillance. Of course, there was an additional story about the government having taps into all the major Internet sites for a huge data-mining operation. Over the weekend, the story broke even more with revelations about the source of the leaks, a disgruntled defense contractor that fled to Hong Kong for political asylum. Naturally the EFF is pounding its we told you so drums over the whole situation.