What the article left out..

Guess what the limiting factor of effective surveillance of Islamic terrorists is?

And I state that the CIA and NSA have known this since the early 1970s...

Ready? Its the amount of trained foreign language people that the CIA, NSA, and FBI have that happen to be skilled in largely Arabic based languages.

Now for the wrinkle how do we get those numbers increased?

Guess? The exact opposite of what republican law makers want to do that is have a fully functioning immigration system.

NSA could tomorrow sweep all communication world-wide but without concrete steps to increase foreign language people to translate any of it is such a HUGE BONDOGGLE that defies description..