Do the NSA's Phone and Internet Monitoring Programs Make Sense? | Cato Institute

Do the NSA's Phone and Internet Monitoring Programs Make Sense? | Cato Institute: "If the NSA could provide multiple, convincing examples of terror attacks unambiguously prevented by its phone and internet surveillance programs, many Americans would regard the implied privacy and civil liberty infringements as an acceptable price of fighting terror."

"The absence of convincing evidence for these NSA programs is all the more striking because the NSA faces strong incentives to publicize its successes, if they exist."