> "Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM conducted within the bounds of the law?" If Americans had looked at the programs that preceded PRISM and the motiv

> "Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't PRISM conducted within the bounds of the law?" If Americans had looked at the programs that preceded PRISM and the motivation behind them and instead asked "is this ethical?" we wouldn't now be asking "is this legal?". All sorts of crimes (in the ethical sense) have been legal throughout American history, and it's a sad waste of one's rights under a democratic republic to skip the ethical question and jump straight to the legal question.