[nitzy]

I wonder if the "gang of 8" will include a provision in their bill allowing all future illegal immigrants to be identified, hunted down and captured using the NSA surveillance. I wonder if it will be used to find drug users posting pot photos on twitter. How about underage drinkers? I am sure they will be able to tell if women are having abortions after the legal time limit. Are they going to use it to stop welfare, food stamp and SSI disability abuse? How about voter fraud?

I am certain that even the suggestion of using the NSA for such practices would be met with howls of anger.

This shows it is not meant to catch law breakers. It is meant to be a political tool to control those who want to follow the law.

It is not meant to be proactive but reactive.

They will first identify a target and then this system will be the tool they use to eliminate it. The administration and the bureaucracy will pick the targets as they do now. This will simply give them the power to efficiently eliminate any target they wish as quickly as possible. Those who were not the target before, (criminals, thugs, sociopaths, lowlifes) will still not be the target. Those who were the target, (conservatives, anti-establishment, political enemies, non "team-players") will continue to be the target.

[IbJensen]

How can these neo-conservative types we’ve voted for to protect our Constitution stand idly by while an installation of this magnitude and import is being constructed? Why would the news media keep a lid on this to the point where we have to dig to find obscure articles about this evil on the part of our central socialist government?

It takes the UK Guardian to alert us to the intrusive surveillance project going on in Utah.

Wonder how chances will be for a facilities tour after it’s online this fall?