The fact that someone was, quite probably, murdered makes the case harder to sweep under the rug though. Anyway, as the man said, just because a shadow phone known to have been used in illegally wiretapping half the Greek government, the armed forces and tens of Greek citizens, made 11 phone calls to within a few km of the headquarters of NSA, doesn't prove that the NSA was involved now, does it?
Yes, I think that this story is going to "go away" ultimately, but not before it reveals quite a few things about our diminishing privacy, sovereignty and capacity for collective outrage... The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake