In yet more absurdity and confirmation that Edward Snowden was never an "enemy of the state" — as top intelligence officials and some congressional leaders have charged for years — it's been revealed that the latest National Security Agency (NSA) program to analyze logs of phone calls and text messages made by Americans was an utter failure and waste, yielding exactly zero arrests from 2015 to 2019, despite having swept up some trillion US phone records.

It cost taxpayers $100 million and was reported to produce a mass amount of redundant information, revealing information that the FBI didn't already know only twice, resulting in only one investigation which led to no charges. This according to a government watchdog group which briefed Congress last week on the matter, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB).

It was one among many broader controversial NSA programs to sweep up and analyze communications, which critics say routinely violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.