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The press makes it sound like the NSA is listening to our phone conversations when in fact they only want to know is "are you calling a known terrorist or terrorist organization." With billions of calls, tweets, e-mail messages, etc. per day, no one or group could ever listen in on conversations. From what I've read, the NSA only keeps telephone numbers (mega data) and not recordings of individual phone conversations. If the head of the NSA knowingly lied to Congress, he should resign or be fired. I'm not sure that has been proven and I don't believe in trying some one in the press. If the NSA had been active before 9/11, we might have averted the disasters and deaths. The Russians and Chinese have all the info Snowden stole from the NSA and CIA. We've lost our tactical advantage in spying on the Russians, Chinese and terrorists. Is privacy more important than nation security? I don't think so. Besides, every country spies on every other country, even friendly countries. Americans have become paranoid and we are slowly forgetting what happened on 9/11.