WSJ columnist L. Gordon Crovitz is dead wrong about NSA spying

Nice mea culpa… You’re looking better with every iteration.

Did you stop to think that clicking the text you copied might actually lead to more detailed information on the subject? The internet: it comes with links now! Furthermore it’s not confusing: 17,000 numbers queried every day is totally different from 17,000 new numbers queried every day.

No analysis is required when there are figures. Cold, hard figures. The other thing is that you can take the figures Crovitz quotes with a grain of salt as the part of the quote that proceeds it: “would never even be seen by any human being unless a terrorist connection were first established,” has been shown to be factually wrong. Why would you trust figures that come packaged with an obviously incorrect claim?

Anyway man, I’m happy to smoke the peace pipe with you over this… it just drives me nuts when people try to sleuth an answer to a questions that’s already answered.

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