Embassy closings, travel warning renew debate over NSA data collection
By Ali Watkins, David Lightman and Adam Baron | McClatchy Washington Bureau
WASHIGNTON — The closing of U.S. embassies in 21 predominantly Muslim countries and a broad caution about travel during August that the State Department issued on Friday touched off debate Sunday over the National Security Agency’s sweeping data collection programs.
Congressional supporters of the program, appearing on Sunday morning talk shows, said the latest rounds of warnings of unspecified threats showed that the programs were necessary, while detractors said there was no evidence linking the programs, particularly the massive collection of cell phone records of hundreds of millions of Americans, to the vague warnings of a possible terrorist attack.
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They have always cited “chatter” as a source of warnings. Did anyone ever wonder or even care what they meant by chatter?
And some critics of the NSA program are angry that the information is not more specific!
The general public does not need to know everything. When the press reports ‘how’ we catch a terrorist or prevent an attack, all it does is inform the bad guys how the good guys watch them. So the bad guys change tactics and the general public is at risk.