ret FBI Coleen Rowley has been speaking out about dangers of Increased US spying
As a MN person it made me sick when I heard Sen Franken say that spying was ok with him.
then I saw this on in my email from ret.FBI agent Coleen Rowley. She has been talking about the dangers of increased US spying, aka throwing more hay on the haystack to find the terrorist.. she would say they are making it impossible by gathering so much info.
And can you even imagine how much this is costing the tax payers.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/11/opinion/rowley-nsa-surveillance/index.html
"But if intelligence was a fire hose before 9/11, it quickly became Niagara Falls.
And now, with so much data (almost all of it irrelevant) that has been sucked into government databases and computers, one might liken the "intelligence flow" to a tsunami, with analysts asked to find just the right drop of water. Good luck.
In fact, The Washington Post's well-researched series in 2010 on "Top Secret America" reported that the NSA was collecting and storing around 1.7 billion pieces of information every 24 hours, even back then.
To switch metaphors, it does not make it easier to find a needle in a haystack if you continue to add hay. No one has ever explained why it was left to fellow passengers or alert street vendors, not the "intelligence" agencies, to stop the last four major terrorist attacks or attempted attacks on U.S. soil. "
MN: If fellow citizens don't care that our Government is spying on us, they should at least care of the billions of tax dollars spent on it and that it is private companies that are doing the spying for our government. I hope people are calling Franken's office and telling him he should support our Constitution instead of spying. and by the way Sen Franken, how much is all this "spying' costing the tax payers ????? Franken's # is 651-221-1016, or in DC 202-224-5641.
Call into Nancy Nelson show on AM 950 from 5-6pm, and let her and the listeners know what you think of Al Franken.
952-946-6205
and let me know if Franken's office or someone Nancy's show can tell you how much all this spying is costing the US taxpayers.
