Exactly. I have written my senator and congressmen about this and similar issues, and I always get very canned answers. Something like "we need to support our military / law enforcement's ability to keep us safe" blah blah blah. I realize it's a highly technical (relatively speaking) and very specific issue, but I am trying to stay positive that people will begin paying attention over time. I can't help but think if people really understood what data is collected and how that data can be used, this would be a totally different story. But as usual, this will fly just under the radar, get reauthorized, and completely forgotten about by 99% of the population.

It could be the normal assert of continued non-accountability.. But they also might want to fail more than the politicians want to choose a non-nationalist policy.

I would expect they miss the days when they had just enough white hat cred to argue dark shade of grey vs black and not NSA black vs vanta black.