>>They are and have been storing every byte that passes through every electronic communication medium in a searchable directory and have the software to automatically put together profiles with any parameter they want.<<
Amazing how they can be so efficient when they want to be.
My thought also! Collecting the data without analyzing it means little. Not to say they can’t target certain groups, but the fact is the mountain of mush can hide an awful lot.
That is a bitter irony isn't it? However, the guy who wrote the program, Drake, also says the NSA has wasted billions of dollars when they could have done a better job without breaking the law. So it's still the typical monkeys diddling footballs gov outfit.