> "NSA may access it only after demonstrating to the FISC that a 'reaonable articulable suspicion' that a particular phone number is associated with a foreign terrorist organization'".
Shouldn't this say "associated with a foreign terrorist organisation, or the UN"?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/17/un-att-nsa-spy-...
So yes, I believe you.
But this is what we get when Clapper gets to lie and nothing happens to him (or when no one ever gets punished for abuses). The criminality of the system continues and expands - because why wouldn't it?
If governments were actually useful to us, they wouldn't have to take our money by force. We'd be happy to pay for their services voluntarily.
That tells you everything you need to know about the system's nature.
If you can explain how to construct an Anarcho-capitalist society that somehow prevented a sufficiently militarily strong government from deciding not try to dominate or collude with all other governments operating in its territory, I would love to hear it.
Not always, take a look at tragedy of the commons: