Plenty of legislation is currently aimed at the NSA‘s collection programs. The agency also has the recommendations of various committees to contend with should the administration actually decide to hold up its end of the „debate“ on intelligence gathering.

Of course, those that feel the government itself is irreversibly broken (and there are very many people who feel that) find these solutions inadequate — or at the very least, prone to subversion by career-minded bureaucrats or skittish policy makers who have last-second changes of heart in the face of „the terrorists will win“ fearmongering.

So, another solution has been proposed, one that changes the field of play from politics to logistics.