The Little Known Spy Agency That Knows Your Flight Plans And Much More

This week, the Wall Street Journal had an in-depth report about how the National Counterterrorism Center won the intel jackpot, giving it the right to store and monitor almost any government database. The Journal highlights dissent within the government about the program; the former privacy czar for the Department of Homeland Security said that new rules being set for the seven-year-old NCTC constituted a "sea change" because, in the words of the WSJ, "whenever citizens interact with the government, the first question asked will be, are they a terrorist?"