If you can't point to budget appropriation, then at least point to some kind of reference to "they just sit and enter few commands and spy on you". There are definitely sophisticated surveillance programs out there, but notion that they track everything is just too tinfoil for me, sorry.
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I don't think that budget needs to be publicly declared. It's just rubber-stamped by some senate committee (IIRC), and the numbers are never released.
So effectively, yes, it's free for the people who do it.
If you can't point to budget appropriation, then at least point to some kind of reference to "they just sit and enter few commands and spy on you". There are definitely sophisticated surveillance programs out there, but notion that they track everything is just too tinfoil for me, sorry.
He didn't say they track everything, he said the marginal cost to track any particular thing is near zero.