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In reply to the discussion: Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace to capture Snowden [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)There is no other way to do that. If you accept the premise that the information could be useful in the case of an attack, then it makes sense to have that information readily available rather than having to go through an enormously time-consuming process of accumulating the information after the fact.
In other words, having to contact hundreds of telecom companies and waiting for them to send you the data. That would be self-defeating.
Even Bob Woodward said it seemed the NSA had good rules in place to prevent abuse. So all Snowden ended up 'telling us' about was something we knew since 2007.
Granted, he made enough of a 'cause celebre' of himself that the metadata collection was stopped. Big deal. Did he need to steal hundreds of thousands of documents, go on the run and then hand over the documents to corporate media offices? I hardly think so.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]