We heard yesterday a recent evaluation of activities discloses that the NSA's spying program has done virtually nothing to halt the spread of terrorism. The bulk collection of metadata phone records by the agency “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism,” according to a study by the New America Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit group. Analysis reveals that much of the evidence NSA did find “could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional [court] orders.”
Could that be because they have been too busy spying on Americans to do their real jobs?
There have been some calls among Congressional delegates to defund the NSA and close it down. Although I don't disagree with the sentiment, I do think a huge domestic spying program would simply evolve under this President elsewhere, most likely within the FBI. Getting rid of the symptoms does not get rid of the problem; the problem is a White House obsessed with political enemies and the need to know what they are doing and who their associates are.
On the other hand, what would we do with that new multi-billion-dollar NSA complex in Utah? Well, I suppose it could be converted into a prison to hold all of those millions of people who are refusing to sign up for ObamaCare...
Illegitimi non carborundum.
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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