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[Yo_Mama]

83. You bring up a good point

80 billion a year is a big chunk of change, and one might suspect that if say 40 billion a year was used to beef up actual investigators that we would get more bang for our buck, plus be safer.

The government is spending huge resources collecting all this data on everyone, yet it doesn't seem to be able to appropriately investigate cases in which it has multiple specific warnings about individuals. This should be a clue to us all that something has gone badly wrong.

The fact is that if your neighbor calls the cops with a tip that you are dealing drugs, the police can take that info to a judge and get a search warrant. How is it that when the Tsarnaev character generated multiple warnings from several different foreign governments that all this machinery was not brought into play?

My guess is that we are missing the forest for the trees by collecting this incredible mass of information on the vast majority of residents and citizens who have absolutely no connection to or interest in terrorism.