I do not know where this op-ed piece was intended for, but I think you should have written it anyway, stating just this feeling of yours. There was/is/will be so much media frenzy about this, every article (even if you think you really had nothing useful to say, which you actually do), op-ed or not, that does not resolve to sensationalists headlines is just really helpful.
I seriously considered it -- I even started trying to write a "there's nothing new here, the NSA has always been spying on us" editorial -- but I just couldn't make it work.
