How the NSA could fix its data-mining program

Fix it, hell!

Get rid of it, NOW!

How the NSA could fix its data-mining program. By Fred�Kaplan:

"We have hit the point where paranoia is a proper frame of mind for assessing nearly everything this administration says or does.

The moment arrived Thursday, when USA Today revealed that the National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone records of tens of millions of Americans, with the aim of creating 'a database of every call ever made,' to people not only abroad but also within our borders.

This goes well beyond the scope of the NSA domestic-surveillance program revealed last year by the New York Times. President George W. Bush responded to that story by emphasizing that, under the terms of the program, 'one end of the communication must be outside the United States.' That assurance turns out to have been highly deceptive, if not an outright lie."