Regarding Google: Can't the NSA "sweep" the searches anyway?

[PSPS]

I was thinking about this the other day and it occurred to me that this might all be window dressing.

Since the NSA sweeps all IP traffic anyway, and Google searches are all submitted via port 80, wouldn't it would be relatively easy to just capture all search traffic by "sniffing" Google traffic from the IP stream?

An added "benefit" to The Cabal is that every one of these packets reveals the IP address of the "searcher."

[ronstratton]

1. Sweeping Google

How do we know that they are not?

[Mutley]

2. I don't see why they can't just type in the search terms they're looking

for. :shrug: Why do they need the records?