It wasn't too long ago that there were classic conspiracy theories about the NSA that would get you labeled as a crackpot which have recently been shown to be true.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...

and

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

It was hardly a conspiracy theory.

Perhaps the point was that they were derided as being mere conspiracy theories?

Since I failed to mention the number of years I was referring to, I meant further back than last year.

I'm not going to argue with you either, but you are terribly naive if you think the circumstances around Michael Hastings death are not incredibly suspicious ;)

It might be more conspiratorial if the US government hadn't already assassinated no less than 4 American citizens which it immediately covered up and systematically lied about the age and combatant status of said individuals in order to calm the outrage.