Firstly, it'd be nice if those national security reasons were clearly stated without the other bullshit. Secondly, as far as I've heard, there's no real success story for all the dragnet surveillance. If there's a legitimate application that is too broad that a warrant for targeted surveilance doesn't cover it, I'd like to hear it.

And until those other interest ^Hbribe their congress people, or said congress peoples data leaks to the world in a way they are effected on re-election they will be ignored by said people that make our laws.

Think tanks: "Congresspeople, here's some compelling word salad designed by the best. You can memorize and repeat this while pocketing 100,000 donated reasons from one of our funders."