Should the NSA be abolished?

[Yo_Mama]

40. It should, at a minimum, be operated with far more oversight

and much more public disclosure of what's being done. To me, at least, it seems that this is out of control and probably really hurting national security. It's possible to dump huge sums of money into vast surveillance capabilities that in the end, leave you absent the human power to follow up real risks. It seems likely to me that this system has diverted investigators onto "low-value" targets aka the sting ops that produce prosecutions of those who may or may not have acted anyway.

And then we have to respect the Constitution, which the current system does not. We are in full "destroy the village to save it" mode, and it's time to step back, rethink and retool.

It seems very clear that this won't happen without public pressure, a public discussion, and brand new parameters that are set not by investigators, but by the public and the public's representatives.