House votes to continue NSA spying on citizens

[Montmorency]

I wonder how high a price tag that new taxpayer-funded server farm in Utah has.

$3 billion, $5 billion, I dunno - but at least some bang for the buck I figure.



Hopefully, this is a long-enough term investment that, assuming most of the data is flushed regularly, and assuming the technology used is sufficiently secret and/or cutting-edge and will be periodically upgraded, there will be no need for such constructions for many decades.

For this specific purpose, at least...

The only way the program will be shut down is when it is used to spy on a serving member of Congress for election dirty tricks.

What if they already do that to all of them? What if that's part of why Congress hasn't been all that upset by the NSA's policies?