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Can you point me to some good research that shows the risk of GMO foods?

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So do you tell your insurance company that you're an Uber employee who drives 50,000 miles a year or do you kinda let that slide?

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How does insurance work? Do you have a special policy or are you just using a standard driver's insurance?

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As a scientist, why do you think Donald Trump cares what you think?

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So much of NSA coverage seems focused specifically on these mass surveillance programs. Are they legal? If so, can the NSA effectively use them? Does the potential for abuse exist? And so on.

Are we missing the big question: do we even need the NSA? We're spending 10s of billions of dollars every year to find this agency and we can't even reliably measure it's effectiveness.

In "Legacy of Ashes" a NYT reporter recounted the history of the CIA and showed how the agency hasn't had much success over the years while at the same time hid and minimized it's failures.

tl;dr- Ignoring the specific mass surveillance programs, do you think we even need the NSA?