McGovern: Unconstitutionality of NSA Phone Call Collection is Indisputable

[BelgianMadCow]

3. Yes, even if one lets no other concern into play, from an economic perspective

the worldwide dragnet and its costs make very little sense as a counter to a terrorism threat.

Which brings the obvious question: either people make no cost/benefit analysis (which is rather weird in These Deficit Cutting Times) because terra terra, or the program serves other goals. I'd venture a guess, and say that the economic and political data swept up probably DO provide considerable monetary rewards. Just not for the citizens of the USA, as is evident. But they're paying for it. Hmmm.

There is an almost 100% correlation between people that care about the surveillance state (make that world) and those that strongly dislike the corporate state.