Holy shit, I couldn't even get through that. I don't know how some of you stand to have a television anymore with this news shit on it.

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Why is no one mentioning the Boston Bombers? If the NSA is supposed to stop "terrorist" attacks Why did they miss that?

More whistleblowers please, I love seeing these guys lose their shit because their corrupt crap is coming to light.

"Has anyone been harmed by this spying?"
"No one that we're aware of."

Then what's the harm in being up front with voters?

Google/FB/Yahoo etc... are companies/services that are used by lots of people outside America. This program is effectively gathering information on a billion people (at least) and possibly better than any spy agency could do on their own. In a way it's genius, evil, but genius. And creepy.

Terror attacks that get prevented tend not to get quite the same news coverage. We'll likely never know how effective it was, but is the efficacy of the program at all relevant?

I don't think the motives behind this whole prism thing were some machiavellian aspiration to become Big Brother. They have blown the terror threat out of proportion and have allowed the ends to justfy their means. Nobody wants another Boston or 9/11, but the idea of a future where such terror attacks are impossible by way of mass survelliance is far more frighteningly dystopian. Buuuuuut I am in danger of making a slippery slope argument and creating a false dichotomy. Needless to say society is about the sacrifice of freedoms for some degree of security. I hope the debate as to where that trade might become unfavorable continues, and I certainly hope those that provided the seed for it dont end up swinging from a rope for treason.

I'd say anyone who doesn't see the harm in PRISM should have all his communication monitored by the FBI for a year. Let's see if they find any harm in that.