A follow-up to Friday's post is in order, given the banner headlines on Drudge this morning: "Planned Attack Big -- Strategically Significant." Related articles cite an "awful amount of chatter" being gathered by intelligence agencies.
How do you think that the intel agencies collect, gather, and sift through this information? It is by using the vacuum cleaner approaches to surveillance that are front and center to the current NSA controversy. If an attack is avoided, or thwarted, because of these programs it will have been worth it. This is exactly why we want NSA one step of ahead of international terrorists.
The terrorists are not necessarily using cellphones or email anymore. They are using Twitter, Facebook, Skype, and more and are now communicating in code. The number of emails, worldwide, amount over 500 billion per day. The other means add another 100 billion. Perhaps now the magnitude of the threat looks clearer.
What we Americans need to be certain is that we have safeguards about our own privacy chiseled in stone. Also, no one wishes that a terrorist incident occur today to validate the headlines.
But I've no problem with giving intelligence agencies the authority to examine all worldwide communications to ensure that it doesn't happen.
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