Yet, the question of individual privacy remains an issue of utmost importance to the American people. How, then, can we retain our freedoms in spite of the actions of agencies such as the NSA, when they promote the notion that an individual cannot be protected whilst also maintaining their rights and dignity? By understanding the nature of the NSA as it currently stands, one obtains his answer. Americans cannot and should not continue to allow their liberties to be negated at the hands of the National Security Agency. It is evident that this segment of the government, whose shadowy actions too often appear to contradict acclaimed motives, proving itself lawless, corrupted, and untamable time and time again, is deeply in need of