It's not about terrorism anymore, but instead these broad-sweeping and baseless spying programs are integrated in their regular intelligence briefings regardles

It's not about terrorism anymore, but instead these broad-sweeping and baseless spying programs are integrated in their regular intelligence briefings regardless of whether they're terrorism-related. I wouldn't be surprised if they can cut a significant amount of their intelligence infrastructure because of the operational efficiency, I'd even go a step further and say that the DHS has been coaxing all of the state local law enforcement to pool all of their data centrally to the NSA -- so now all levels of law enforcement rely entirely on the NSA's data processing capabilities. The amount of data-gathering by the local and state law enforcement agencies is massive and they likely have very little/no infrastructure to handle this data, so they'd pass it off to the federal government.