Plame and Wilson: The NSA's metastasised intelligence-industrial complex is ripe for abuse

[timdog44]

92. Several things here.

The surveillance agencies have grown out of their boundaries. Mercenary companies have been formed to do this so-called spying and operated by those whose only interest is money. Mercenaries. Always the bottom feeders. They are the scum of the earth. Money from the highest bidder and thus problem one. Who is the next highest bidder?

The line has been made so hazy as to when surveillance is truly needed and not needed that it difficult to know anymore. What we have instead of real "spy" work is a bunch of over paid computer people saving every bit of information they can collect and then store it in a very large computer system for later use. I think that defines metadata. More information from metadata than actual phone messages and emails. And all this is done without proper constitutional guarantees of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. Evidence is needed that warrants have been obtained to collect information.

The numbers of people working in the intelligence community (is that an oxymoron) has bloomed to many millions. And many, as I said before, are mercenary scum. So, with millions of people in the intelligence community, we should feel safe knowing that all kind of terrorist acts have been halted. Like the Boston bombing? Or the Cole explosion? Or the embassy attacks? Or the biggy, 9/11? So what terrorists have we stopped. All we near is we have stopped them.

I don't feel safer. I feel like the terrorists are the US government spies. There need be a solution and a reduction in the forces who claim to be "the intelligence community". And what we are finding out is that even our elected officials at the highest level either do not know what is going on or are being misinformed about what is going on. It is as if there is a government within the government.