A-hem. "NSA is not borderline-rogue" ? They are in flagrant, publicized violation of the Fourth Amendment (rogue) with only a subtle, borderling rationalizati

A-hem. "NSA is not borderline-rogue" ? They are in flagrant, publicized violation of the Fourth Amendment (rogue) with only a subtle, borderling rationalization keeping them from being wiped out by congress "we won't used the mined data/results-of-unreasonable-search until we need it". The amendments being, as you may recall, agreements leveraged by the states to prevent an out-of-control federal government. Remember, the colonies didn't need the feds as much as the feds needed the states. it has a hard sell, and without protections like the Fourth Amendment, it ain't worth it for states to be part of the nation.