How many Americans had no idea of the existence of a government organization called the National Security Agency before the last few weeks? An honest show of hands probably would reveal that most Los Angeles residents were unaware of the government's highly-classified, communications protection agency.
The media made the NSA and its super-secret PRISM data-gathering program the subject of nationwide debate about the public's right to privacy. Agency officials contend they are just doing their jobs to protect the nation's communications by mining dangerous data from foreign-based emails, videos, files and chats.
