New Bill Would Stop NSA’s Mass Collection of U.S. Phone Data
My personal opinion is we first need to release the NSA from impossible demands for perfect information.  It seems like each time there's a terrorist incident people ask how it could be prevented and why didn't we know?  The answer is if course you simply can't know everything, particularly what's going on in people's minds.<p>Since the impetus is always on NSA to gather intelligence and prevent the next disaster all they can say is "We need more data". No, they don't. No amount of data will prevent every criminal act.  Instead we need to revisit the trade offs made between freedom, privacy and bringing criminals to justice.