[Minutemen]

So if the feds have been doing this on a grand scale for years, why have they never foiled any plots?
Sure, they may be paying people to “monitor” communications, but that doesn’t mean they are producing any results.

[brent13a]

So if the feds have been doing this on a grand scale for years, why have they never foiled any plots? Sure, they may be paying people to “monitor” communications, but that doesn’t mean they are producing any results.

That's the crux of all this. The Fed's left hand never knows what the right foot is doing and vice versa. Even if they can record all phone calls then what? What are they doing with all that info on everybody? they're certainly not using it for anything even if they know how to utilize the information they might have.

When there is a gov't agent assigned to every single person to monitor what that person is doing, day-in and day-out, then I won't make fun of the tin-foil alramists. So you know, the NSA would need like 200+ million agents to turn around and monitor the other 200+ million adults. Wake me up when we get to that point (which will never happen).

[null and void]

So if the feds have been doing this on a grand scale for years, why have they never foiled any plots?

I wouldn't assume that there were no plots foiled.

Rather that panic the sheep, or alert the hyenas, I'd bet a lot of would-be jihadis are in jail on other charges or died in "traffic accidents"...