what was always remarkable about surveillance is that given these immense intrusive powers and a total panopticon, this is still the best they can do.

fentanyl epidemic, mass illegal migration and trafficking, networks of terrible abuse, flagrant public corruption, infiltration of schools and academia, conspiracies to demolish the entire western world, and yet even with total information awareness or some variant, these crimes occur in the open.

the scandal isnt that they are spying, its what they have explicitly chooseb to allow and enable.