What is it you want to see happen with the NSA?

[Pholus]

22. That is the beginning of good...

If you insist this boondoggle is necessary, you should be willing to pay a bit of a price for it...

Without a warrant for an active investigation, NO ELECTRONIC RECORD about a US citizen SHALL be retained longer than 36 months.

The Germans may process but not store anything, perhaps that rule would be good for us too.

NSA must NEVER release anything gleaned from the data for any reason other than national security. No mission creep allowed whatsoever.

Evidence from the system inadmissible in any legal proceeding ever. Even for terror. Make your case from the investigation, not the data.

Release/Leakage of personal information about any non terror suspect punished by life in prison without possibility of parole for the leaker. This does not extend to programmatic information.

If it can be shown that data from the program has been released to influence an election or used to blackmail an individual this should be prosecuted as a capital offense.

External review built into annual operations.

No secrets held past 10 years regardless.

FISA warrants (including the subject of the investigation) are made public after 10 years.

A path for civil litigation for citizens not convicted of terrorism but who have suffered ill effects must be created.

ABSOLUTELY no contractors.