NSA's Data Issue

Moon of Alabama:

The NSA's says it needs all teh data it collects to find "terrorists". If one believes that the NSA genuinely wants to find terrorists one should be worried that it has chosen the wrong method for the false problem:

General Alexander spoke in defense of the N.S.A.'s surveillance programs, including its collection of a vast database of information about all phone calls made and received in the United States. “You need a haystack to find a needle,” he said

The assertion that one needs a haystack to find a needle is incredibly stupid. It assumes that there is a needle (or "terrorist"). Something neither given nor provable. Even if there were a needle how will making the haystack bigger it easier to find it? And why is the needle the danger that must be found? Edwald Snowden set the NSA's haystack on fire. Alexander now has his house burning because of the much too large haystack he accumulated.

I just listened to John Boehner claim he wants to cut government waste, but there was no mention of the ridiculously stupid NSA spying program.  I would think Republicans, if they have brains in their heads, would try to cut this program and attempt to pin it on Obama, even though it started under Bush.  However, since they claim it will help find evil brown people who hate our freedoms, and since tons of the money goes to contractors, Republicans seem A-Ok with the idiocy of the NSA.  As for Democrats, they should be pummeling the administration over this.  It is an unconstitutional travesty.