“The point was, the ability to use the system on our foreign enemies (and friends) has been compromised”
Then maybe they shouldn’t have illegally spied on Americans. If you don’t use your toys right, they get taken away.
Besides, they are not even slightly doing this to protect us from terrorists. If that was the case the border wouldn’t be wide open, we wouldn’t be funding Al Qeida in several countries. We wouldn’t have increased moslem immigration 5 fold since 9/11. We wouldn’t have flooded the Mexican cartels with machine guns in order to impugn American gun owners. We wouldn’t specify TEA as the stand in “terrorist group” in every training scenario run these days. The FBI and Army wouldn’t have purged their training of every negative reference to Islam.
If you are doing all THAT, don’t come to me with a case of the fainting vapors about how Snowden, or I, are making the country less safe by rejecting that the NSA and DOD should have the right to turn their antennae inward upon US. It’s pure 100% gold plated BS.
Wait a minute.
No one is saying that it is OK for the NSA to snoop on citizens.
What was said is that because Obozo’s administration chose to direct this capability inward against citizens who he sees as his opponents, the ability of the NSA to do it’s legitimate job of protecting the nation is compromised.
NO ONE is saying it was OK to snoop on the US citizens without probable cause. It is clearly unconstitutional to do that. In spite of the fact that Congress and POTUS truly thinks it is above the law and rulers of the Hobbits.