So you suggest conducting electronic surveillance within our borders for the purpose of making our country secure and safer has absolutely nothing to do with the on-going, widespread security breach of our borders?
If this is the case, why do banks spend many millions on secured vaults to hold valuables? Would you suggest banks just leave their vault doors open for all, and just install listening devises?
That would be like you installing microphones in your home for security purposes, and then leaving your doors wide open, unlocked.
I am all for domestic intelligence and security, as I stated in my first post, but the above is exactly what is occurring in the United States.
I am saying that you can't use the latter as a basis for your being for or against the former, because there's no necessary connection between them.
Yes, they're both security issues; however, they're not the same security issue -- you can be for or against one, and for or against the other, and still be able to build a consistent argument for whatever combination of opinions you happen to hold.