[xorcist]

The most important thing in all of politics is to get to decide which words are used. The moment you use terrorism in the same sentence as data collection, you help spread the propaganda.

Bulk data collection has been done since the advance of fiber optics. They started doing it because they could, and because they had the economic means to. That's it.

The plots that have been thwarted by it are those orchestrated by US agencies to get mentally unstable people to join in, to quickly whisk them away to Siberia^WGuantanamo.