Nothing Sinister About 'Novel Intelligence from Massive Data'

As if in answer to the set of questions about the NSA data-mining program Your Montag posed yesterday to those who are unmoved by the innocent-people-have-a-reasonable-expectation-if-not-a-right-of-privacy argument or the coerscive-institutions-cannot-be-trusted-with-such-copious-personal-information argument, Defense Tech posts this: NSA Sweep “Waste of Time,” Analyst Says

The answers to the questions seem to lead just about where I suspected.