> Maybe because outside... I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no ev

> Maybe because outside... I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no evidence) and I state it as a possible explanation. > The problem with this line of reasoning is that it's not falsifiable. And for the same reason the claim that terrorism is not a problem due to lack of sufficiently motivated terrorists is also not falsifiable. Hence my suggestion that the government scale back their anti-terrorism [spying] operations and see what the outcome is. > we need more transparency and less secrecy from our government Agreed.