[semimojo]

Back to the topic of this thread, I want, and expect, the people responsible for keeping us safe to have the most kick-ass technology available, regardless of how they get it.

Any alphabet agency has the potential to misuse their tools, and if they do they must be held accountable, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have the tools.

[Darksheare]

Point out for me where it was said that we shouldn’t have the tools.
What HAS been stated, again and again, is the illegal mass warrantless spying on citizens must stop, and the program currently in use that has repeatedly been shown to be useless at stopping bad guys must be scrapped.
If a tool is useless for the task it is stated to be used for, you don’t keep using it, do you?