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Google the Church Committee and look at the achilles heel he predicted the NSA would become if it was not tightly regulated, and this was nearly 40 years ago for Christ's sake. I beg to differ with you, in that we are most assuredly where we are today because of apathy and failure to do as Senator Church admonished all those years ago. It has been a progression that got us where we're at now, not something that was flipped on like a switch the day Obama sat down at his desk in the Oval Office. Of our 16 or so intelligence agencies, the NSA has the largest budget and the least oversight. Jump on the band wagon and join the voices that DEMAND reform of the NSA rather than stand in the corner with the other ******s that call Ed Snowden a traitor.
I think you have a point. But I also think you make the wrong one. Oversight ie control is absolutely necessary. The more potential the instruments are the more important it is to keep a handle on those that wield them. But it is not a solution to forbid the use. That would be stupid and even negligent. But it must be made clear to everybody what is being done.