The NSA and Me
I just want to point out that the real issue then and these days, is the potential compromise of the DoJ. In my mind, the level the 3 letters have risen to in the beltway and across the nation fundamentally undermines the justice system, and that includes SCOTUS. I don't know how much of the lack of will to prosecute is incompetence (Hanlon's razor), fear of bribery, blackmail, loss of financial gain or loss of power/position, though I have my ideas about how to find these things out, the bottom line is that the system doesn't work properly.<p>I am a USMC Iraq combat vet (most of my time was during the "surge"). I spent most of my years since I got out trying to follow the strands up the chain to figure out what went wrong, and quite frankly, every single branch of government, including the fourth estate, has been compromised by the security state aka the military congressional corporate industrial complex. The executive is compromised, justice is compromised, the legislative is compromised.<p>Nobody wanted to hear my rants on the NSA pre-Snowden. Now they don't want to hear me explain the why, and get too caught up in the how.<p>My real problem is that none of these concerns are being addressed in any meaningful way by any of the people at the top. If the transition from nation-state security matters to single-actor threats is as insidious as the security apparatus purports it to be, they should explain their logic. So far though, it seems they have decided to undermine in a very conscious manner the constitution of the United States of America, without so much as notifying the American public.