You know, the thing that gets me most about all of this state surveillance that Bush initiated but has been in place for decades now to a lesser and more contro

You know, the thing that gets me most about all of this state surveillance that Bush initiated but has been in place for decades now to a lesser and more controlled extent, is that it is absolutely inefficient and inefficacious. The NSA claims they have disrupted "dozens" of terrorist plots, so why not publicize them once they are disrupted? They're disrupted, they're done. The "terrorists" would have surely realized their plan didn't go quite as planned. So the NSA disrupted some plots and turned an asset that simply told their terror boss "bummer, XYZ didn't work because I lost the keys" and he's now snitching for us. That being said, there are surely "plots" that could easily be publicized. The thing people don't realize is that under the blanket of classification lies a heaping pile of shit, corruption, incompetence, and abject stupidity. Secrecy can protect, but more often than not is simply obscures, disguises, compounds, and perpetuates failure and corruption. Case in point, the FISA "Court" that's rubber-stamping requests. 100% approval??? At the very least there is a far too close relationship, which is more common than not in Government and Military, and is a form of pernicious, systemic corruption, and FISA requests are simply being constructed so they are guaranteed to rationalize approval on technical terms. But I can assure you, there is deep, systemic, putrid rot below the new coat of paint.