Why NSA's PRISM Program Makes Sense

WASHINGTON — Public disclosure of the federal government's effort to track terrorists through the telephone records of average citizens has reinvigorated a national debate over the balancing act between security and liberty. A day that began ThursdayThe Washington Post posted a story about the NSA is spying on citizens and accessing to technology companies servers. Specifically the NSA the main servers of leading U.S. Internet companies collecting huge volumes of information (call metadata) fromToday, the Guardian newspaper confirmed what EFF (and many others) have long claimed: the NSA is conducting widespread, untargeted, domestic surveillance on millions of Americans. This revelation should end, onceFor years, four former National Security Agency analysts warned that the government was conducting widespread surveillance on domestic communications. Their warnings were largely

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