harm us how
it’s the same in discovery in a legal case
you get flooded with 50,000 pages of crap and can’t even see straight trying to go through it
these bozos, instead of profiling and targeting are collecting a billion phone calls a month. How is that useful?
I am glad Snowden did what he did and warned us about how depraved our government has become
This “gathering” is only useful after the fact. It’s a farce.
Snowden is just a distraction from the real culprits.
Personally I’m a lot more concerned about these companies that seem to exist for no other reason than to collect taxpayer dollars on make work projects. I’m also concerned about how people like James Clapper and many others can slip back and forth between executive positions with these companies and official government positions.
No one, even our closest allies will work with us not because we also spied on them but because we are incapable of keeping even a low lever contractor from publishing our entire crown jewels of national security information.
Germany and France the UK and others not mad we bugged their phones they are pissed we bugged their phones and then through our incompetence let the information out.
Why should they risks sharing intel with sloppy, unprofessional dunderheads?
Because those billion phone calls are coverted to data and searched as easily as you do google.
Because those billion phone calls are coverted to data and searched as easily as you do google.