It has been a year since the first of many Edward Snowden’s groundbreaking revelations (which promptly relegated yet another conspiracy theory into the compost heap of conspiracy facts) exposing not only the ubiquitous tentacles of the NSA, and its UK-equivalent, the GCHQ, but the incestuous relationships between the government’s spy agencies, its pervasive snooping reaching as far as Angela Merkel’s cell phone (which is finally the subject of a read more