Nobody in the government is talking. It’s a case of national security.”
“Of course. The national security of spying on U.S. citizens.

It seems whenever the government doesn’t want anyone to know something, it is all of a sudden critical to national security.

He didn’t have regular email like everyone else. He couldn’t afford that digital fingerprint that the NSA, the CIA, the FBI and all the other espionage alphabeticals counted on for their privacy-bashing surveillance of the entire formerly free world.

Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired.
'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, quoting something he had once said, and was rewarded by one of his rare and rather engaging smiles.

Oh, that? I never thought it was eavesdropping, Aslan. Wasn't it magic?"

"Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way.

In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.