Epiphany! Why Would The NSA Possibly Want To Store More Data Than Any Human Being Could Ever Sort Through?

I would say because they are

The aliens are curious?

well then the aliens have an A.I. sorting for them :)

Its not FOR a "HUMAN BEING" to sort through.

Its for their AI to play with.

Well, Isn't someone going to post a scene from 2001 a space odyssey, waiting....

The computer collects, and organizes the data. Should they ever require it, say for blackmail, they can easily pull it up.

well yeah. But they need an actual A.I. that can make a decision on what to keep, and where to keep it. You are correct, at that point they can use that intel for any number of nefarious purposes, or for nobel ones.

Interesting...

cool picture

Yep.

Havent you seen "Person Of Interest"?

or Eagle eye.

no. sounds cool. Maybe they made that show as a way to introduce the public to the concept.

What? Did they release the Health Care Bill?

Would you like to play a game?

EE is a bit more "hollywood" than POI tho.

POI is pretty spot on the money.

Our government has lost it's mind. We are being led by people who should be on medication not in charge of things. It doesn't make any sense, just like communist Russia, Nazi Germany, or a hose of other insane countries.

My theory is they just want us to think they are watching and listening all the time to keep people in a state of fear and oppression with a prisoner mentality.

I suspect a lot of cameras and screening devices are fake and just there for show.

If they really wanted to do that and could do that, they would not publicize it if they wanted true data and good intel.

They want people to be too afraid to talk on buses and think they are listening in on cell phones and watching them through the TV. Not long ago people who believed in that were deemed schizophrenic and insane.

Typing that last sentence made me realize maybe they are trying to induce a form of mass hysteria or schizophrenia on the entire population by reverse engineering the symptoms.