Been watching episodes of Person Of Interest from last year, and now it just is too, too relevant to the Edward Snowden case.

If you don't know this show, it's about a massive computer system that ties together every street camera, every shop camera, all phones all wireless and wired communications to form a Machine that watches all citizens, all the time. Government mass surveillance to guard against terrorism.
The very existence of the Machine is a dangerous secret, and anyone who knew of it is either in hiding or dead. Except a few federal officials who use it.

The builder of the Machine suffers attacks of conscience after finishing for the government, and manages to get back in, and make the Machine work for him... to discover ordinary violent crime against individuals and who is planning it.

He hires an ex-Special Forces man to work for him to intervene and save those victims, since the Machine is aware of all crime, not just terrorism.

Anyway, in the episode I just saw, a Wall Street analyst starts noticing odd things.. and concludes there must be a giant Machine of surveillance used by the government. The Machine picks up on this, and "knows" the man is now in danger. The Machine sends his name as an imminent victim to the computer guy and his partner, who set about trying to protect him.

The glaring thing is that the government official who sends assassins to take out the Wall Street guy happens to be the SPECIAL PROSECUTOR IN CHARGE OF PROTECTING FEDERAL WHISTLEBLOWERS.

The irony slays me.