NSA’s mass surveillance proves pointless

By Steve Chapman

Published January 19, 2014 5:00am ET

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NSA’s mass surveillance proves pointless — U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, in a ruling last month against the NSA, noted that "the government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature." (AP File) | Uncredited

In times of war and national emergency, it’s sometimes necessary to sacrifice civil liberties to secure vital gains in public safety. In those cases, we may have to accept a loss of privacy or freedom rather than invite mass slaughter of Americans.

The National Security Agency‘s domestic phone records collection is not one of those.

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