Here some excerpts for lazy people like me. This is how they try to justify not doing anything about a lack of privacy for US citizens.

Getting a FISA court order is bureaucratically cumbersome and would slow down investigations — especially fast-moving cybercases

Yeah sure, because we dont constantly keep seeing atrocities being commited even when the feds already had intel weeks, months or even years before anything happened.

probable cause needed for a warrant is rarely available early in an investigation. But that’s precisely when these queries are most useful

So we just abolish probable cause and the burden of proof step by step because it makes things slightly easier? Sounds like fascism to me.

You know what would keep us safer? If the most prominent news agency in the US actually did its job and did critical journalism instead of acting like RT news.

For example, more intelligence gathering power given to intelligence agencies would not have stopped the Iraq war. If anything, the more power given to these agencies, the more official they sound when they make boldfaced lies because people assume they most know something actually substantiative with all that intelligence capacity.

We would have just launched even faster into the Iraq war.

Which of course is the point