::: Thanks, I do think that your changes are an improvement. However, I still have POV issues with the characterization of PRISM as "a clandestine national security electronic surveillance program" when the word "PRISM" appears to refer to the intelligence collection and sharing application that has been used by the DOD since around 2006 and is not clandestine.  (See Army Field manual reference published in Mother Jones article at http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/what-prism-do-2 & the description of PRISM at p. 13 of SAIC 2006 annual report at http://www.saic.com/news/pdf/annual-report2006.pdf ) The sofware is neither clandestine nor does is it used for surveillance, although it very well could be used to collect and share information that was obtained through clandestine surveillance.  But the point is, there seems to be a confusion of terminology.  (Even more confusing because there are at least 3 different software programs called PRISM that are used by government agencies, but the SAIC PRISM description and history of its use seems to be the most likely).  

 ::: Given that this article is titled "PRISM" I think it should correctly identify what PRISM is - or if that is in debate, to summarize the different views of what it may be. The government says that it is software  there are now plenty of secondary as well as primary sources to cite for that view. The source of the idea that it is a surveillance system seems to be an interpretation of graphics depicted on some very clumsy PowerPoint slides, but those graphics are all entirely consistent with the software interpretation as well.  

 ::: I'm not debating whether or not the NSA does clandestine surveillance. I am sure they do, given that it is their job to do so, at least of foreign targets. But I'm saying that the weight of the evidence is that PRISM is not the name for whatever secret surveillance programs they have, but rather the name of the software program they are using to manage and share the data that they are collecting from various sources.