I guess it was the tone and editing that nagged me. It reminded me too much of the countless conspiracy theory videos out there and if there is anything that annoys me to the brink of detonation, it's conspiracy theories. For NSA and suchlike, the line between c.t. and fact is blurry. Inevitable due to the necessity for hush hush and some people's pathological search for bogiemen, but it's extremely annoying.
I suppose my inbuilt low tolerance for c.t. came across louder than intended. When it comes to belief vs disbelief, I have no reason to pick one over the other, not without facts that is and I hadn't looked at the article you mentioned. All I had at the time of posting was that video in isolation.
Edit: Somewhat hysterically funny fact: This may have changed now but for the most of its existence, the existence of the ECHELON program was admitted by all participating nations except the US which, absurdly enough, kept insisting it was all fantasy.
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