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The disengenuousness of it is what upsets me. I could find great national pride in this if it was used on terrorists as they claim. Fact is they aren't stop
by TheCondor 12y ago
The disengenuousness of it is what upsets me. I could find great national pride in this if it was used on terrorists as they claim. Fact is they aren't stopping domestic terrorists like the sandy hook shooter or the batman gunman or the boston marathon bombers. And "real terrorists" aren't Americans or generally even in America. If they tracked everybody and then dismissed the law abiding citizens and released their data as they added them to a white list or something, I could get with that. This approach to fighting terrorism is just fishing in the wrong pond though.
- DanBC 12y agoYou list a bunch of terrorist actions performed in America by Americans (and there are many more), and then say that real terrorists are not American or in America? Europe has a problem of citizens leaving to travel to Syria who become more radicalized. Terrorists are not all foreigners.
- logn 12y agoAgreed. However, even if they successfully targeted domestic terrorists, I think that's still a job for the FBI and not the NSA. And that's a job that requires search warrants for an individual person and not a large cross-section of the population.
- balls187 12y agoSeems like a slippery slope. I'd classify a lot of these domestic mass shootings as lack of mental health support in the US, rather than a lack of willingness on the NSA. There isn't much that comes out of these mass shootings that indicate a series of coordinated digital events, that typically occur for foreign groups looking to attack US interests. Instead it's the work of a single, mentally disturbed person.