Re-read your comment and I don't see how I missed this quip about a database. It's so off the wall I had to comment on that...
Having a phone number database is a number of things:
- Useless - call an operator and ask, or get a warrant and ask for it.
- An absurd waste of time and taxpayer money - if all you want is a phone number or two, finding out every call being my to/from everyone else is the slowest and most costly way to find the numbers.
- Absurd on face - it has been made clear already that the intent was to create patterns of phone usage. If you believe that that is the same thing as building a phone number database, then you aren't just naive, you're not of sound mind.
And to answer the initial question, terrorists HAVE killed Americans with such patriot act in place. The 911 attacks could have been prevented because we had intelligence about it and the president at the time was warned 29 days prior to the attack but elected to do nothing about it.
We have thousands more traffic deaths a year than terrorist attacks. Spending money on safer roads and vehicles would be far more effective than wasting it spying on Americans.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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