this:
"feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it's been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions"
  means
White House doesn't support it, but the public supports it

this:
Literally, neighbors are asking people, 'Why are you spying on Grandma?'"
means
the public doesn't support it

So, it looks like, NO ONE supports the NSA, except some power hungry rogue elements.

They could have used some reminder. If they were honest bible thumpers, then they wouldn't have had that sinful affair with the snake and the apple.

If i knew this site was serious, i would put bounty on Sanjuro's head. But this is more likely a fraud. I would still put bounty, but not on this site :D

Tell me when you hit Mars with your handjob.

A DDOS is by definition a distributed denial of service. If it was a deliberate attempt, it would be DDDOS.
I don't attack Microsoft but let's make sure we use terminology properly.
It wouldn't be a DDOS for a different reason: a Bing bot would not qualify as distributed.

If it outlives its predecessors it is better.

WIth proper corporate liability, there wouldn't be need for any angry mob. I didn't suggest any lynching, i suggest proper laws.

If you create a faulty product that causes property loss or death, heads must fall. In China, they just shoot the CEO in cases like this.
For that huge income they should at least pick the people who pick the people who do the quality control.

Yutani was just an average weapon trading megacorp.

You should be aware that less than 30% of Earth's population celebrates Halloween that way. Most of them copes with this lack of sugar intake remarkably well.

So, more like conditional statements than comments.
So they are more likely #ifdef followed by code than // followed by ramblings.

My parents warned me about strangers offering candies. They never mean well.

So, terrorists don't have much to do?

The sizzle you hear is the burning hair in your ear.

You don't dare to call it intelligent design, do you?