It's just such an elusive pattern. The NSA wants to collect information about digital comms AND they have the ability to eavesdrop/split network traffic at the infrastructure level... I just know there's something there -- there's SOME kind of link between those two concepts -- but I can't quite connect the dots yet.

Oh well, this will be a good data point, so I'm glad to know this one particular thing isn't some kind of conspiracy theory (always have be careful about those conspiracy theories; they're just so tone deaf and reactionary).