Reply #7: You bring up an important point [View All]

their dragnet means that they have to sort through tons and tons and tons of stuff that isn't helpful to what they are trying to find out-and it just means that resources must be stretched thin. It would seem to me that it is likely that conversations that might lead to something would be spoken in code with words that wouldn't raise red flags anyway and that these conversations would be passed over. I also wonder how many people working at NSA have been using their time to listen in to conversations not invovled with terrorism, but with politics or sex or whatever that particular person is interested in. Remember please the police helicopter in NYC that was supposed to film a bicycle protest (yeah, gotta watch out for bike terrorists) and wound up filming a couple having sex on a rooftop.