Flutterby™! : "the real existential threat to the NSA is not Al Quaeda, but Congress"

MeFi user jenkinsEar points it out:

The NSA needs terrorists and bad guys in order to succeed- the real existential threat to the NSA is not Al Quaeda, but Congress- and, like Hoover before them, there's a pretty strong likelihood that they are spending more time monitoring the source of their funding than their ostensible targets.