Everyone likes to think that the forum targeted are by terrorists related to middle east, Syria, etc. I think that gathering such large amounts of data, allows

Everyone likes to think that the forum targeted are by terrorists related to middle east, Syria, etc. I think that gathering such large amounts of data, allows you to do very specific sentiment analysis on specific groups of the population, in addition to twitter and facebook having fora access is a big deal. All these are speculations of course. Our agencies are guided by people and more often than not inadequate people. They might be collecting data just because the NSA does it, with no specific purpose. Data just waiting to be abused by someone in a position of power.