Senator Ron Wyden to introduce comprehensive NSA and secret court reform bill - it won't work

Senator Ron Wyden to introduce comprehensive NSA and secret court reform bill.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/09/senators-to-introduce-comprehensive-nsa-and-secret-court-reform-bill/

No reform of the NSA is possible until James Clapper and Keith Alexander are replaced by people who uphold the Constitution

James Clapper and Keith Alexander should already be in jail facing multiple counts of perjury.
They are required to be replaced by people who WILL uphold their oath to defend the Constitution for the United States.

Until this is done whatever laws are passed in Congress, Clapper and Alexander can still lie and hide the truth.

Keith Alexander is STILL lying in his recent interviews.
He says that the NSA has stopped the terrorist threat in America and yet he still cannot name a single example where a terrorist plot has been stopped that could not of been stopped by obtaining a warrant after finding probable cause.

Why is it that, if the NSA Mass Surveillance programs are effective against terrorism, the NSA did not stop the Boston bombing before it took place, rather than merely helping to investigate the bombing after the event.
There was plenty of evidence against the elder brother that he posed a real and substantive threat before the event, to provide probable cause for a warrant.
Boston should of been stopped by an effective law enforcement agency, WITHOUT the Patriot Act and WITHOUT ANY mass surveillance.
It was not.
The current system renders American citizens LESS safe from terrorist attacks because it buries real threats under mountains of data held and effort and resources spent, on millions upon millions of law abiding citizens.

Keith Alexander dismisses critics of the NSA Mass Surveillance programs which are collecting just about every form and every piece of electronic communication on just about every American citizen and countless millions of others across the entire globe as 'esoteric'.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Governments that are given the power to spy on their own citizens have ALWAYS abused that power.

James Clapper recently said that the current situation is nothing like the situation in the 1970's before the Church Committee reformed the intelligence processes.
I wholeheartedly agree.
The situation today is FAR WORSE than the 70's.
The spy agencies back then did not have powerful computers collecting every communication and transaction, the budgets of the spy agencies is much larger now than it was then.

This is not about an 'esoteric' concept.
It is about retaining privacy, so that people cannot be harassed or intimidated away from exercising their inalienable rights of peaceful protest and dissent against government policy.
It is about reinstating the conditions where a Free Press can operate, instead of journalists being threatened and detained for simply doing their job.

In short it is about reinstating the fundamental rights of citizens that are required, in any country, in order to operate basic democratic processes.
http://ian56.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-primary-purpose-of-nsas-mass.html

Reform of the NSA and the intelligence agencies are NOT what is required.
They need to be burnt to the ground, rebuilt and led by people that WILL uphold their oath to defend the CONSTITUTION, not massively abuse it.