The Chief Judge of Secret FISA Court Admits In Written Statement That It Cannot Properly Oversee NSA

[KoKo]

38. None of us would have known how massive it was, either...if not for Snowden.

The whole thing is out of control. Private Contractors, Storage Facilities being built to house the massive surveillance data that they don't admit to collecting and holding forever. Who could keep on top of all this? Congress not allowed to see how it really worked...the people collecting the data not properly supervised.

The way it's dribbling out allows us to at least try to digest it rather than be overwhelmed with one big story that would have been scoffed at and gone away because it was too complicated for most of the public to understand.

My local newspaper just announced a new "NSA Facility" to open in my state providing 100 jobs. The article stated that the "Facility" would not be engaged in "Surveillance" but in "Research." What the hell kind of research...they didn't say.