Whoah, queue the next level of conspiracy theories. Now that everything the tinfoil hats were saying a decade ago is revealed as 100% real and operational, we need to go to the next level Inception-style.
I have been joking with my friends that Obama called up Putin and told him to put on a side-show.
No joke. We couldn't have asked for anything better than this. Pure Gold!
I'm not sure what anger you are talking about here. Nobody is demonstrating in the streets. Angela Merkel is unhappy that her phone was targeted, but what of it? As for the various national security apparatuses, they were already part of the system.