"Fascism is when you cannot slide a cigarette paper between business and government." ~Benito Mussolini

WaPo story as it broke

WaPo story the next day

ZDNet | Summary: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying. Now the story is unraveling, and the Post has quietly changed key details. What went wrong?