Definition of Irony

I once saw a movie called "Con Air".  There is a scene where Steve Buschemi says. "Irony-a bunch of idiots on a plane singing a song from a band who died in a plane crash."

That is the first thing I thought about when I read this article about the federal Privacy and Civil Rights Oversight Board determining that the NSA's phone snooping program was illegal.

Here is the story for your consideration

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/politics/nsa-telephone-records-privacy/