Domestic Spying Hurts Our National Security

What do the various reports mentioned above have in common? These reports and audits, whether conducted by the inspectors general of our federal agencies, Congress, or the presidential commissions, indicate that the weak state of our nation's security today is a result of inefficient, incompetent, and mismanaged government. How can any of the failures established by these reports be attributed to the lack of power to engage in massive communications intercepts of Americans? Based on these reports, how can one go about fixing our nation's security problems by unlawfully gathering millions of discrete pieces of information from the citizens of our country, inundating our intelligence agencies with huge amounts of raw intelligence, and causing an insurmountable backlog?

This is an excellent point which never even occurred to me. In fact, with the domestic spying going on - for political reasons, most likely - the intelligence processing machine is probably pushed way beyond its limit (not that it was doing all that great a job before). So, never mind the legal questions it raises - it simply ain't working. Or it is - the Administration probably knows exactly who is critical of them by now. May I see the file on me, please?

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