What does the NSA say?
I’d like to see what they have on this. Probably, gigaflops of data.
Probably something like “sorry, we’s jus listnin. We don’t actually DO anything”.
Just ask those runners in Boston.
Or the folks who got raped by ENRON while “somebody” was listening to the traders on the ENRON floor...
etc etc.
Like the rest of the bureaucratic tribes in “government” today — the only thing that one can be seen to serve is, itself.