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It's easy to casually propose such things, on a blog, while lobbing the same tired criticisms about over-zealous intelligence gathering programs. But to actually implement such grand, sweeping measures would require resources that don't justify the benefits. Just scale back and increase oversight on troubling programs, and otherwise let the NSA do its critical job as an intelligence gathering agency.

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Finally, a pragmatic voice amongst those calling for an anarchist solution. I will add my vote to those calling for increased oversight, and regulation over the all out "scrapping" of these programs.

If you take it as a given that the NSA is spying on all parties, that includes those supposedly providing oversight. Those providing oversight can then be coerced into rubber-stamping whatever the NSA wishes. Therefore, "increased oversight" is all but impossible.

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