  | Sat Jul. 5, 2014 11:45 PM EDT   So was all of this worth it?
The Post's review illustrates just how hard it is to make that
judgment:      The whole story is worth a read in order to get a
more detailed description of what these intercepts looked like
and who they ended up targeting. In some ways, the Snowden
intercepts show that the NSA is fairly fastidious about
minimizing data on US persons. In other ways, however, the NSA
plainly stretches to the limit—and probably beyond—the rules for
defining who is and isn't a US person. Click the link for more.
1Naturally, the NSA has an explanation:      Front page image:
Edward Snowden