A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
Specifically the part about 'all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards'. Does that not imply they have found a weakness in TLS/SSL? Once the information is transmitted (say my Facebook password) to an https endpoint it is already encrypted, no? So them 'sniffing'/intercepting the packets would do no good, unless they could decrypt them.