The NSA has lost the trust of the American public and now needs to work hard to regain that trust. This is tone deaf in the extreme...the NSA must be in full-blown denial mode. Job #1 is admitting you have a problem. We have a problem. The NSA needs to figure out how it will achieve all of those positive outcomes (example: healthcare) while mitigating the risk of abuse of Big Data. Isn't this the story of the founding of America? Build bureaucratic and political structures to mitigate the abuse of power? Isn't this our heritage?

I think the NSA has already hired most of the people qualified to understand how best to build NSA 2.0 which I can only hope will lead to USA 2.0. A crack team of political scientists, social scientists, computer scientists, some historians, some mathematicians, and a couple of representatives from the organization without a name should be able to come up with something.

The democratic processes need to be renewed from time to time...isn't the NSA in the best vantage point to understand the future of democracy? If we could all get together and just nudge it in the right direction...