General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: What is it you want to see happen with the NSA? [View all]moondust
(19,988 posts)Approach it from both the front end and the back end.
1. Front end: The FISA court. Give it some teeth, as suggested by Richard Wolff on LOD last night. Ensure that it is a real watchdog and not just a rubber stamp committee (which it may or may not be now). Possibly add term limits for its members to keep it fresh and apolitical.
2. Back end: Hospitals have ways of ensuring that hospital employees are not unnecessarily digging through the medical records of their patients, be they celebrities or average Joes. I don't know exactly what is involved but it's basically monitoring access. Hospital employees found unnecessarily digging through patient records can be fired. It seems that something similar could be done with NSA personnel, comparing user activity to a list of active FISA authorizations to see if there is any unauthorized access and by whom. In other words, spying on the spies.