[Hoot Gibson]

I heard the technology is available to digitally reorganize your computer files which, takes way less space on your hard drive. You know anything about that?

I am not an expert on file compression, but compressed text files are much smaller than any kind of sound, image, or video files. The cost to the government of collecting and storing data would be peanuts compared to the value that the data would have to the person or persons who control it. Storage becomes cheaper all the time. I hope that the fact that both Republicans and Democrats in Congress are claiming that the data is being collected and used legally and constitutionally means that the claims are true. However, the fact that we have an Attorney General who is in contempt of Congress and other agencies, including the IRS have hidden information from Congressional oversight, does not give me much confidence that the same thing is not happening at the NSA.