CNN's Peter Bergen Probes Claim NSA Halted "Dozens" of Attacks - Finds It Mainly Hype

[DontTreadOnMe]

26. First, let me state that I feel the NSA budget is way too much money that could be spent on other...

...like food programs or education or rebuilding infrastructure.

BUT people are trying to make the argument here that there is a "cost analysis" for the NSA - and that we are not getting any value from the NSA Program.

It could be EASILY argued that "even if they have not prevented one single attack so far", it is the next "911-type major attack" that is what they are trying to prevent. 911 was the most costly economic attack in the history of mankind. I am not sure you can even put an accurate dollar figure on it. And put into perspective, a "trillion dollar NSA budget" is tiny compared to the total cost of 911. The economic hit the world took from 911 was staggering.

The NSA Project is a long term prevention program, and should not be cost analyzed on a "quarterly basis".

I am not in total agreement with everything the NSA is doing, but the last time I looked in the mirror my hair was not on fire.

I am starting to see a pattern where everything wrong with America is blamed on Obama. There are two other branches of our government that deserve equal blame for everything involved with the NSA.