Sen. Paul To Snowden: Don’t ‘Cozy Up’ To Russian Government

[ljm2002]

30. You say it could have stopped follow-up attacks,...

...but of course we have no way of knowing that.

My point is, we are paying huge $$$ for our government to to collect huge amounts of information on all of us, all so we can have the illusion of security. The fact that a lot of this money goes to private firms, and that as a result there are tens of thousands of contractors who have top secret clearances, is just an additional poke in the eye to the citizens of the U.S.

The basic disagreement that a lot of us have is between those who believe this system really provides the level of security that our government claims it does, vs. those of us who do not believe it; and between those who trust the government (and its contractors) not to abuse the information that has been collected, vs. those of us who know for a certainty that they will abuse it.

I guess "never the twain shall meet" is where we're at. It's glass half empty / glass half full stuff, showing there is a very fundamental difference in world view between us, that is not amenable to argument.

But argue we will, this is DU!