NSA Whistleblowers: Spying Operation Has Been In Place For Years, Involves All Major U.S. Phone Companies

I think that the fact that the Patriot Act was written BEFORE 9 11 invites reasonable suspicion and questions.  Questions, which, those in the know refuse to respond to.  We get talking-points' patronizing answers, more appropriate to a Chauvinistic time.  We're told it's all about terrorism, when the truth is that relatively little, if any of it, has been used to prevent terrorist acts.  From Harper's Index:

Number of delayed-notice search warrants granted by federal judges last year under the Patriot Act: 1,150


Number that were related to drug offenses and terrorism, respectively: 844, 6


Number of times between January and June that Google turned over user information to government investigators: 4,287
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