“Mass collections are impeding our ability to identify terrorism”
I’ve been saying this for years. The sheer bulk of data collection is weighing down these intelligence agencies and making us less safe. I would say to cut their budgets but they would only ramp up their drug running and black ops money making side enterprises. I don’t have the answer and it only stands to get worse. No we have confirmation on why John Roberts flipped on Obama care and how disgustingly dirty the Obama administration was, as if we didn’t know.
The answer is when those who spied on and disseminate the data, in attempts to undermine and compromise the president-elect and then the president of the United States are found, or eventually revealed, make a public example out of them and sentence them to the maximum the law allows.
Their motives are nothing short of treason.
If you believe that bulk data is truly about our security, then that is a reasonable question to ask. Then again, maybe it is more about potential control of every single living person everywhere? This is what the East Germans did, minus the super computers.
The answer is very simple: cut funding for every government agency that is not authorized to Congress via Art 1, Sec 8 or otherwise directly mandated by the Constitution. If there are objections, tell them to amend the Constitution.
Note, this would eliminate pretty much everything but the Post Office, the Army, the Navy (of which the Marines are a part), the Department of Transportation, the Secret Service (they're supposed to be about pursuing counterfeiting), and [perhaps] the IRS (Amd. 16 is part of the Constitution).
Note that this immediately gets rid of: