U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists

U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists:

The debate over the U.S. government’s monitoring of digital communications suggests that Americans are willing to allow it as long as it is genuinely targeted at terrorists. What they fail to realize is that the surveillance systems are best suited for gathering information on law-abiding citizens.

I’ve no idea how to weigh the value of the cited report from the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service, but it makes good reading.

This mind-bo...