cynicallyoptimistic

Mr. Greenwald, thanks for all you and your team have done (and are doing!), and thanks for keeping this whole thing much more of a "whistleblowing" and much less of a "leak" with your responsible reviewing of the information you're releasing. My questions:

1. So far, the NSA revelations have been obvious breaches of constitutional law to the eyes of many, but still not quite severe enough to convince some otherwise reasonable/rational folks of wrongdoing. Can we expect anything more obvious anytime soon; are there any "smoking guns" coming that could be considered undeniable proof the Government has broken any specific law or laws?

2. Is there any further data available on just how much interdepartmental sharing is going on; are any of the various databases ever accessible/accessed by agencies on a more "local" level, like a state or city, or is it strictly Federal?

3. Do you have any information about what role(s) the new NSA Datacenter in Utah may or may not play in all of this? (wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center )

4. Could you please tell Mr. Snowden "thanks from a fellow IT worker?"

Why would someone need that unless he is doing something wrong involving chem weapons ?

I live near a large number of chemical plants, and I've actually woken up to... "smells..." before. I'd actually like to have a mask of some kind in the house and car, not because I'm up to anything, but because I want to be protected if there's ever a problem from one of the plants that is significantly worse in scale than just a bad smell. How could a civilian get something like that?

Thanks again. If you have time for a follow-up:

I think there already are things clearly showing the government broke the law, including (but not only) the Constitution, but there is much more to come on that score.

Will there be anything that, for lack of better terms, "names names?" It would really help open some more eyes.

I was hoping for some kind of "catch-all," or at least something that would be a "catch-most." I should probably just move, heh.

How many Kaiju references have been made and which ones are the best?