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comment by kleinbl00

The NSA will stop this shit as soon as they're defunded.

Unfortunately, their funding is discretionary and part of the "black budget" which means congress has to pass an act to even talk about it. Combine that with the fact that an overwhelming amount of surveillance conducted by the "black" programs is actually industrial espionage and completely not defense or strategy-related - AT&T will happily let the NSA spy on foreign calls using AT&T lines because the NSA will happily drop hints about what Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile) is up to, for example.

So. Defunding the NSA, even a little tiny bit, is tricky as fuck. 'member back when the CIA failed to stop September 11? And we rolled them into Homeland Security and clipped their wings? And turned them into a public-facing organization with almost no charter for foreign surveillance? Their budget was 4.8 billion back then. It's 15 billion now. They bought a fucking air force in the interim.

TL;DR no