The FBI and NSA Won't Keep Us Safe

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The FBI and NSA Won't Keep Us Safe

2 HOURS AGO Ryan McMaken

 

The NSA was too busy spying on your family to stop the Orlando gunman. But why aren't night clubs keeping tabs on people who walk in with rifles?

 

According to various sources, the gunman in Orlando's Saturday massacre, Omar Mateen, was being investigated by the FBI. (See Judge Napolitano's interview for more, here.) But, as was the case before 9/11, the FBI keeps such a long list of so many many people, that the list tells them nothing about who is a real threat. Meanwhile, we have been told countless times that the NSA should be able to spy on anyone it wishes in order to "keep us safe." Given that Mateen was already on an FBI threat list, was the NSA eavesdropping on Mateen? If not, why not? Was the NSA too busy spying on dirt-poor backwoods members of "militias" to bother keeping track on Mateen, who, by many accounts, was a man who spoke often of his sympathy for terrorists? It's becoming increasingly evident the NSA simply collects so much information on so many people and casts far too wide of a net. What the NSA does is great for blackmailing powerful people. It's less useful in actually catching terrorists.

 

We have also learned that Mateen worked for a taxpayer-funded "private" security agency that is under contract with numerous government agencies around the world including the CIA. The company often provides security for Federal buildings, and presumably has access to numerous federal installations. His co-workers believed he was unhinged.

[Valin]

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The FBI and NSA Won't Keep Us Safe

2 HOURS AGO Ryan McMaken

 

The NSA was too busy spying on your family to stop the Orlando gunman.

 

 

 

 

 

Not having read the article (yet) I will say this is the kind of silly nonsense B as in B S as in S I have come to expect from Mises Institute.

[Valin]

 

 

Given that Mateen was already on an FBI threat list, was the NSA eavesdropping on Mateen? If not, why not? Was the NSA too busy spying on dirt-poor backwoods members of "militias" to bother keeping track on Mateen, who, by many accounts, was a man who spoke often of his sympathy for terrorists? It's becoming increasingly evident the NSA simply collects so much information on so many people and casts far too wide of a net. What the NSA does is great for blackmailing powerful people. It's less useful in actually catching terrorists.

 

I'm not saying Ryan McMaken is dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to how the FBI/NSA/...etc operate but he certianly does a very good impression of one.

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Given that Mateen was already on an FBI threat list, was the NSA eavesdropping on Mateen? If not, why not? Was the NSA too busy spying on dirt-poor backwoods members of "militias" to bother keeping track on Mateen, who, by many accounts, was a man who spoke often of his sympathy for terrorists? It's becoming increasingly evident the NSA simply collects so much information on so many people and casts far too wide of a net. What the NSA does is great for blackmailing powerful people. It's less useful in actually catching terrorists.

 

I'm not saying Ryan McMaken is dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to how the FBI/NSA/...etc operate but he certianly does a very good impression of one.

 

now, now

[Valin]

 

 

Given that Mateen was already on an FBI threat list, was the NSA eavesdropping on Mateen? If not, why not? Was the NSA too busy spying on dirt-poor backwoods members of "militias" to bother keeping track on Mateen, who, by many accounts, was a man who spoke often of his sympathy for terrorists? It's becoming increasingly evident the NSA simply collects so much information on so many people and casts far too wide of a net. What the NSA does is great for blackmailing powerful people. It's less useful in actually catching terrorists.

 

I'm not saying Ryan McMaken is dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to how the FBI/NSA/...etc operate but he certianly does a very good impression of one.

 

now, now

 

 

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