We should really HAVE this debate. How much for all of the PRISM Blarney Total Information Awareness complex?
I really want to know because we can't have Holder wasting his precious time getting subpoenas for crap he already has access to and the press constantly bitching they are being attacked and surveilled. [Join the club guys, ain't it fun?]
Allegedly this crap has been going on since the late 70's. I'd like a line item break out of at least the last 20 years to include salaries, real estate, tech, patents, management, cost overruns and any notable successes of actual crimes thwarted, solved and/or prevented. Let's have a cost benefit analysis.
Oh and for the cooperating corporations I want to know how much it cost them, and the various alphabet soups to gather and collate said info. What I really want to know is how much extra my phone bill and my cable bill are because of it.
Then let's examine all the bullshit legislation Congress has acting out on the big stage trying to act like gun registries are verboten. Are you fucking kidding me? How about the IRS "scandal", surely the NSA already knows who you are teabaggers, and how much money you have, where it came from and what you do with it besides buy pork rinds. How much is it costing us to run the clown show in the Capitol that means nothing and does nothing?
Let's see how much money we've wasted shall we?