In an opinion found by clicking this link here, federal district court in Washington DC found the government’s collection of meta data on telephone calls to be violative of the Fourth Amendment. This vindicates Edward Snowden. This program, ruled illegal as in violation of the US Constitution, was denied to exist under oath by members of our government when testifying before Congress.
At some point, we will all realize as an entire group that the attack by the terrorists in 2001 did not ruin our country as much as our reaction to it did.