Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated
by tomrod on Sunday June 16, 2013 @10:43PM
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> You can't represent cost:threat ratio as dollars per person tracked
Sure you can. If you're only using the program to track 300 people, the average cost is the total cost divided by 300.
As you point out, there is a very small risk of dying from a terrorist plot is low. So if we're spending so much money and only tracking 300 people, there is clearly a problem.
Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated
by comefrom10 on Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:17PM
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Perhaps if the US government wants to protect us from terrorism it should stop acting like a terrorist organization abroad.
Re:Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated
by mpyne on Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:54PM
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What was the excuse for 9/11 then? I seem to recall it was nothing more "terroristic" than having U.S. forces deployed in Saudi Arabia, at the request of that nation.
But let me guess, victim blaming is OK, as long as the victims are Americans?
You can't represent cost:threat ratio as dollars per person tracked. The major reason for why the program exists is to detect and break-up one-off major terrorist plots so even if the NSA was detecting all worldwide terror plans against the U.S. the number of people they were tracking would never be very high.
This is what all the people saying that the risk of dying from terrorism is so completely low have been reminding us, remember?