content: The records can't be purged at the moment because the NSA is being sued over them, the statement said.  I think this is why. The NSA, and the relevant branches of government, are increasingly under scrutiny from an increasingly educated population. The more we engage everyone on all fronts we can, the more likely to net people who will actively vote against it. Or vote for people who will vote against it. Representative democracies are a bit difficult in this aspect due to their indirect nature, but I think we're slowly winning. At least in terms that we, as a younger generation, will inevitably assume control and (ideally) fix it.