It's a vacuum cleaner approach to virtually millions of communications an hour. Nobody knows what they're doing with it. |
Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested. |
NSA prides itself on learning the lessons of the 1970s and obeying the legal restrictions imposed by FISA. Now it looks like we're going back to the bad old days again. |
Overall, most people think [Trailblazer is] a disappointment, |
The fact that we were attacked, the fact that nobody seems to have known anything about it, is an indication to me that they haven't broken it, ... In my opinion, this is the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history. |
The whole idea of the NSA is intercepting huge streams of communications, taking in 2 million pieces of communications an hour. |
There's almost a feeling of déjà vu with this program. |
They (Bush administration) wanted to expand the number of people they were eavesdropping on, and they didn't think they could get the warrants they needed from the court to monitor those people. |
Today one of the key aspects of NSA is what they call 'information at rest,' this is information in databases. |