We are fools not to see the obvious: The government must collect communications data to have a record of communications to sift through after the fact of an attack. Intelligence services have little knowledge of when and where an attack will be made in advance. They may listen in real time to known or suspected plotters, if they are identified. In most all cases when an attack occurs it is a surprise to them.
If they do not collect all communications in advance and have an historical data base to search through once key words are known after the fact like places, names, methods, etc then it is like us trying to find information on google if there is no google to index in a searchable format all the information in the google world for us to access when we want to know something.
Government cannot afford not to know. It must collect all information in advance about everything. It simply cannot look until it has a right to look. That exactly is how it will defend its right to collect all information. Court orders are still required. How stupid we are to think that protects us!!!
Of course they are collecting this information and as much of its content subject only to its ability to store that, which is always increasing like the new installation in Utah.
The question is: When are they looking at the information and is it fishing to establish probable cause to look closer. What personal rights are protected and how? We should all know exactly what communication information is being collected (or monitored in real time as the first step of sifting and collecting. This is called their capability and is certainly a secret that would be revealed if they demonstrated probable action on information that could only be obtain by obvious connection to secret methods. Often a dilemma when it comes to acting on information of this nature. It would point to how it was obtained. That is where cover stories and deception are used to mask how they knew what the knew and when.
This is a big problem! We are being boiled by raising the temp a degree at a time. Every new incident is an opportunity to raise it a degree.
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