I agree. The words "confidential informant" are prominent in the FBI press release. Almost to the point of being silly, e.g. "yet another confidential informan

I agree. The words "confidential informant" are prominent in the FBI press release. Almost to the point of being silly, e.g. "yet another confidential informant". Historically that has already been abused by law enforcement. Pervasive indiscriminate electronic surveillance will only make things worse. I wish NSA, CIA, NRO et al would do useful things with all the billions they're spending. E.g. where is Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? Keeping track of airplane movements would IMO be a much more productive use of their resources than much of what they're currently doing.