[1010RD]

We know that the enemy has worked hard not to use electronic communications, relying instead on mules to carry information.

Now that this is public, why collect data that isn’t related to terrorism since the terrorists are not using electronic communications?

Furthermore, IIRC they only need 4 metadata points (or is it 5) to identify you specifically and individually. Could this information be abused? Take a look at history, recent history specifically and see that government lies, obfuscates and is by its very nature political.

[familyop]

"Now that this is public, why collect data that isn’t related to terrorism since the terrorists are not using electronic communications?"

After some decisions during the early 1970s to change government, business, academic and family policies (and laws), presentations were made in the late 1970s to inform government officials that wars in the future (from the '70s) would be fought against rioting American citizens. Enemies of the future were depicted as young laborers wearing jeans, red bandannas over their faces, T-shirts, running shoes, etc. The presentations stated that wars with foreign nations would no longer happen.