Originally Posted by MFCT

I was trying to make sense of why they'd waste such time and resources turning the spy cross-hairs on Americans, instead of hostile groups in the Middle East. You know, like the ones who did 911? Then a possible scenario occurred to me.

Maybe the NSA doesn't have the kind of access to telecoms and internet infrastructure in the Middle East that they do here in the USA. They'd have to deal with each of those governments first. Maybe they can't depend on every government in the Middle East to agree 100%, cooperate with 100% of what they want, 100% of the time. However, in the USA its a non-issue.

With the wide-open southern border, where anyone from anywhere can cross over without question and possibly be rewarded with citizenship, could it be that they WANT every hostile group in the world to cross over into USA via Mexico? So they can spy on their phone records and internet traffic unimpeded? And then use that information to thwart any evil intent those groups might have?

If that's the plan, it seems like a very bad idea, and a very risky gamble. But its one thing that might explain why they're so hell-bent on continually extending and passing such Bizarro-world laws.

Just my 2 cents.