In fact, he probably has done more to explain NSA to an otherwise ignorant body politic thanany other author since the agency was established in a secret executive order signed by President Truman 60 years ago.
With the Lithuanian Communist Party in the lead (motivated perhaps less by a new-found attachment to freedom than by the recognition that it would otherwise cease to enjoy any public support whatsoever), for the first time, the Kremlin is facing anti-Soviet agitation organized and officially sanctioned by local authorities within the borders of the USSR itself.
Today feels so damn familiar, like any well-known story, and the familiarity makes me even more sad and angry than I would otherwise be, and I hope you too.