The Atlantic blogs on a report from the Brennan Center for Justice on "what the surveillance state does with our private data" as a strong synthesis of everything that's been revealed in recent months. Further, The Atlantic writes, "even though the people being spied on are often totally innocent, the government stores their information for a very long time."
The full report is here: http://www.brennancenter.org/publication/what-government-does-americans-...