This isn't a very good article. I think the NSA is reasoning that revealing data via FOIA requests reveals its own capabilities which it wants secret. There's surely an argument to be made that we're all considered national security threats, but its responses to FOIA requests don't support that argument (at least not directly which this blogger seems to think).<p>Can the journalists of our world at least do a little more analysis and extensive research? I think your average HN reader could put together a better article than this one. I guess it's time to automate journalism.<p>Sorry for the rant. I'd love to discuss NSA more, but journalism or lack thereof is almost as much to blame for our country's woes. Obviously, this blogger has the right idea and goals, but probably spent all of 15 minutes writing this article.<p>I think you could create a program which would accept topic sentences and then scour the web to find facts supporting that topic, hopefully facts from recent and relevant primary sources, instead of what bloggers do these days, which is regurgitate other articles.