I would argue that there isn't really such a thing as a legitimate target of the NSA. From Wikipedia [1]: "Unlike the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the

I would argue that there isn't really such a thing as a legitimate target of the NSA. From Wikipedia [1]: "Unlike the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), both of which specialize primarily in foreign human espionage, the NSA has no authority to conduct human-source intelligence gathering". This is a very dubious remit. I'd argue that, in the current digital climate, the recording of phone and internet traffic is the primary method of "human-source intelligence gathering". If so, the NSA is operating out of it's defined area of responsibility and has made itself illegitimate. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency