"Here's what now should be taken as an operating procedure in any discussion of the NSA..."

[JDPriestly]

34. Yes. We need a complete opening of the NSA surveillance files.

Nothing should be hidden.

That would make blackmail impossible. The embarrassment and prosecutions would be out there and done with and we could get on with democracy. If we turned the tables on the NSA and opened their files -- just opened them to the world -- perhaps no one would be stupid enough to try this kind of Cointelpro operation again.

We need privacy laws that also prohibit private companies from collecting personal information on us from the internet beyond what we actually give that specific company, and that law nees to be part of an international protocol.

There could be exceptions for subpoenas in actual criminal investigations and a requirement that the showing of probable cause include very specific, listed information such as the crime being investigate, the name of the person or source of the information causing suspicion of the specific person being investigated, etc. and a statement that the suspect's constitutional and privacy rights are being respected. Something along that line.