Are the great bandwidth, computing, and data-storage abilities used by the NSA being wasted on warrantless surveillance applications that yield no demonstrable useful results?

How could those resources be better utilized (for example: Public ‘free speech’ style hosting of an ‘electronic public square’, or letting citizens access their own data)

Are the great bandwidth, computing, and data-storage abilities used by the NSA being wasted on warrantless surveillance applications that yield no demonstrable useful results?

How could those resources be better utilized (for example: Public ‘free speech’ style hosting of a public square)