We are way past this now. If anything, we have the opposite problems of "apology theorists" and "coincidence theorists".

People have been trained to think "conspiracy" is some BS endeavour that includes aliens in Roswell, mind control, illuminati etc.

Fact is, most of history has seen covert action by governments and organisations. Those are also conspiracies (by definition), and it's totally wrong (and disingenuous) to lump them with BS conspiracy theories.

It's no big deal. We all suspected it.

It's so unsurprising that the US forced a foreign president to touch down and have his plane searched in a foreign country to try and catch the whistleblower.

You needed proof to know the US government was spying ? It isn't some giant secret you know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

Until recently, it was considered ridiculous to think that the NSA is spying on citizens of countries allied to the US. Now we have proof.

Ridiculous by whom? It wouldn't surprise me if we spied on our allies citizens and then sold the intelligence to our allies so they didn't have to.

I mean, we have in the past warned allies that one of their citizens was planning an attack. It should have been obvious that meant we were monitoring their citizens.

It was considered ridiculous by the mainstream. If I told that to some of my friends, they would have thought I'm crazy. Not anymore.