The article reads as if they're waiting for confirmation that they were right all along.
However, USA citizens are still waiting for an admission that they were overboard and will change their ways.
These viewpoints aren't reconcilable, and trying to please both is not only hypocritical but simply impossible - the president must make a decision, and set clear the expected direction for NSA; otherwise there can't be good morale if they're unclear if what they're doing is considered by the top leaders as good or evil.
Ho ho. Only problem with that is that American political system isn't really tailored for that. But even ignoring that, a major problem is that good and clever people are not willing to run for Congress in the US, because the climate is so rotten there, that they'd rather work in the private sector (and who can blame them?).
So Democrats and Republicans cannot even get decent people to run on their names. And no one is going to rally about the alternatives, because... well, who are the alternatives?
However, USA citizens are still waiting for an admission that they were overboard and will change their ways.
These viewpoints aren't reconcilable, and trying to please both is not only hypocritical but simply impossible - the president must make a decision, and set clear the expected direction for NSA; otherwise there can't be good morale if they're unclear if what they're doing is considered by the top leaders as good or evil.