Latest big NSA story in the WaPo.

[randome]

5. Well, you can have your 'woe is me' thread if you want.

But I'll step in to give you something to think about. Something that's been mentioned numerous times before.

It is impossible to only collect one end of an electronic communication, same as it is impossible to only hear one end of a telephone tap.

If a suspect is on chat rooms and uses the Internet for other purposes -which the article clearly states accounts for most of these communications- of course the NSA will collect the communications of others who are not the suspect.

Out of billions of daily emails, we're going to cry and stomp our feet over several thousand that -so far as we know, anyways- were collected inadvertently?

I don't think so.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled 'woe-is-me' thread.
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