Saturday, July 6, 2013

The NSA: What Exactly Are We Paying For, Again?

Beyond the intellectually insulting responses from representatives of the Obama administration regarding the NSA communication surveillance programs (including PRISM) which have even included statements from that paragon of truth, Barack Obama himself, such as "no one is listening to your phone calls," the utter failure to make use of the so-called metadata that has already been collected is astonishing.

Billions upon billions of discrete data points have been collected for years in what is arguably a violation of our constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure clearly stated in the 4th Amendment.  But regardless of the program's questionable constitutionality, with all that data, why can't they seem to get a handle on where any of the illegal aliens who came to the United States and overstayed their visas are located?  According to the administration's spokespersons, that is four million people!

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