Shia LaBeouf, NSA: Actor Revealed Government's Activity Five Years Ago on Jay Leno

The announcement that the National Security Agency was reading into the personal communications of American citizens came as a shock to many last week. Shia LaBeouf was not one of those people. 

Video has surfaced of the actor making an appearance with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" in 2008 when he made comments that may have seen paranoid at the time, but in retrospect are probably totally accurate. 

Back then, LaBeouf was promoting his film "Eagle Eye," a thriller in which an unsuspecting citizen is pushed to committing a terrorist act by a mysterious, eye-in-the-sky figure. Prepping himself for the role, the actor got a firsthand look into how much attention the government is paying to you. He says an "FBI consultant" told him that the agency that "one in five phone calls that you make are recorded and logged." LaBeouf said he doubted at first, but the consultant played a recording of the actor carrying on a phone conversation from years earlier. 

As LaBeouf told Leno at the time, "It's extremely creepy." 

As of yet, LaBeouf hasn't made a statement reminding us that "I told you so." The actor is currently at the Gowen Fields in Idaho, prepping to shoot the World War II flick "Fury." 

If anyone ever doubted LaBeouf, he's certainly justified now. He beat Edward Snowden (the former CIA employee responsible for the PRISM project leak) to the punch by nearly five years. 

Away from the entertainment world, Snowden is apparently hiding out in Hong Kong at the moment.