Which is stupid, unless of course, you believe that American soldiers dying is a better idea. Wouldn’t it have been nice to have an intelligence service that could have assassinated A. Hitler on Sept. 2, 1939.

Snowden went on a QA session. My view of it is up there.

“The documents show that discretion as to who is actually targeted lies directly with the NSA’s analysts.

Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information “inadvertently” collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.”

Many wise men have warned of where this path leads;
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” C. S. Lewis

““Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” Robert A Heinlein