Clearly the NSA is out of control - but these aren't conflating issues. For the record, I don't particularly spend time worrying about either Snowden or the NSA.
You made a valid point about the difficulty of judging how sensitive information should be released and the dangers of letting small groups of people make those judgements. I apologise for my somewhat tangential post. I've consumed a good quantity of whiskey and made a reflexive post.
LOL. You don't need to apologize, that's what's wonderful about this forum is almost everyone is open to learning more regardless of the tangenialness.
Besides, my 15 yr knob creek barrel pick empathizes.