[JRandomFreeper]

Bull crap. You can't prove that any attacks have been averted by the wholesale spying on Americans.

You can prove that Americans are having their rights abrogated by an over-reaching federal government.

I'll take my chances with the terrorists.

3000 dead isn't devastating. 6 million into ovens is.

/johnny

[what's up]

You can't prove that any attacks have been averted

Heritage Foundation report on thwarted attacks:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/09/40-terror-plots-foiled-since-9-11-combating-complacency-in-the-long-war-on-terror

Your comment is naïve. If terrorists know they are being monitored, they cannot communicate effectively and attacks are mitigated. Are you in the camp that thinks if we just treat Al Queda better, they won't attack? Nonsense. They will attack at every opportunity. Why give them a open door to communicate freely by lessening surveillance?