Another choice bit from Jane Mayer's profile of Thomas Drake, former executive at the National Security Agency, who violated the Espionage Act by leaking charges of "fraud, waste, and abuse" to a Baltimore reporter:
The [N.S.A] reportedly has the capacity to intercept and download, every six hours, electronic communications equivalent to the contents of the Library of Congress. Three times the size of the C.I.A., and with a third of the U.S.’s entire intelligence budget, the N.S.A. has a five-thousand-acre campus at Fort Meade protected by iris scanners and facial-recognition devices. The electric bill there is said to surpass seventy million dollars a year.
The Dish 