Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants

Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by bo1024 on Monday March 13, 2017 @03:48PM (#13861666)

I'm not being specific about what the word "spy" means here, but just trying to make a general comment about what would appropriate for agencies like the CIA, NSA, FBI.

The parent comment seemed to imply that the goal/job of an intelligence agency ought to be to spy as much as possible on as many people as possible. I expressed doubt.

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Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by willstrafach on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:28PM (#13862028)

I was responding to the point that the initial commenter was making regarding spying as a whole. I agree with you that if we actually did literally spy on 7,000,000,000+ people it would be an incredibly massive waste of time and resources.

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Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by bo1024 on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:59PM (#13862301)

But I am also saying, more importantly, that it would be ethically wrong to try.

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