[Fungi]

Good point, but that is not what they are supposedly there for.

[marktwain]

A lot of what the government is “supposed to do” is cover for what officials want to do.

Remember “I you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”

The NSA has been made into the greatest spying machine ever conceived. To believe that the holders of that power only use it for the good of the country, in approved ways, is very unrealistic.

Enormous power. Power undreamed up by Emperors. Power hates a vacuum.