What the article left out..<p>Guess what the limiting factor of effective surveillance of Islamic terrorists is?<p>And I state that the CIA and NSA have known this since the early 1970s...<p>Ready?  Its the amount of trained foreign language people that the CIA, NSA, and FBI have that happen to be skilled in largely Arabic based languages.<p>Now for the wrinkle how do we get those numbers increased?<p>Guess?  The exact opposite of what republican law makers want to do that is have a fully  functioning immigration system.<p>NSA could tomorrow sweep all communication world-wide but without concrete steps to increase foreign language people to translate any of it is such a HUGE BONDOGGLE that defies description..