> "Any government could be spying on you." How many governments have a direct line to his local network exchange and an automated data gathering system that op

> "Any government could be spying on you." How many governments have a direct line to his local network exchange and an automated data gathering system that operates on that data? > "convincing a judge that you need a warrant is surely no more effort than convincing your superiors at the CIA that it's worth devoting effort to spying on this random dude." If the CIA's data mining project went through bureaucratic layers to enable the tracing, if that step was proactive and required effort, you would have a point. But all accounts suggest it's 100% automated. He may well be inconsistent in his paranoia. But you seem to be judging that based on an either overly generous/naive faith in official government statements, or an ignorance of what the CIA and the Patriot Act really do.