re: #26 William Barnett-Lewis

We never needed them in the first place and we’ll never get rid of them. Now that the tech and software exists? It can either be known - as it is now with the rubber stamp FISA courts - or it can be a black project that we know nothing about. This way is a tiny bit better.

But everyone needs to face facts - you do not have privacy and haven’t for a very long time.

Agreed that we’ll most likely never get rid of this. No administration will want to take the risk of backing off on this and having a terrorist attack happen shortly thereafter. 50+ years in the political desert would be the price paid.