This is my favorite part of the article: "We have been repeatedly told that these surveillance programs would have been able to stop 9/11, yet the NSA didn't d

This is my favorite part of the article: "We have been repeatedly told that these surveillance programs would have been able to stop 9/11, yet the NSA didn't detect the Boston bombings -- even though one of the two terrorists was on the watch list and the other had a sloppy social media trail." It's upsetting how freely those in the government are willing to give up liberty for safety, but when we find out it isn't even a fair trade they're still ok with it.