This is not new in the sense that a whistle-blower revealed back in the mid-2000's (as I recall) that AT&T was working with the NSA to illegally bulk collect all internet traffic.

The problem is that even though this is all public record lying government officials continue to dismiss the obvious truth as "conspiracy theories" and so it becomes necessary to prove the same points over and over again in excruciating detail as long as government officials keep lying.