[spammyusername]

How would you know what use the information is being put to?

[rhino369]

How do you know what the military is being put to? Any government power can be misused. Foreign intelligence isn't particularly dangerous.

[spammyusername]

Foreign intelligence is used to interrogate/arrest/kill people. Only powers that are granted can be misused, we as citizens can take anything we want away from the government.

[LLWM]

You don't. You elect people to represent you, they get told what use the information is being put to, and they make decisions accordingly.

[flycaliguy]

What if they are lying to the officials? Or what if they have information on the officials? What if they don't have information on the officials but the officials have been convinced that they probably do?

[LLWM]

What if the officials are mind-controlled by alien slugs? What if the NSA is actually a terminator skynet sent back from the future?

There are lots of scenarios in which we're screwed and can't do anything about it. That's life.

[spammyusername]

This is pure ignorance. No one who falls into the trap of thinking like this will ever contribute anything useful to society.

[LLWM]

I would say that the statement easily disproven by a single counterexample is more ignorant, but suit yourself.

[flycaliguy]

I'm no expert on logical fallacies but I think your response here is one of them.

[LLWM]

I am an expert, and it's not. How do you like them arguments from authority?