[r9etb]

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?

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.

[Jigsaw John]

Yes, they're both security issues; however, they're not the same security issue

Well of course they are both security issues. I never said they were exactly the same. You are the one that stated conducting warrantless electronic surveillance within our borders for the purpose of making our country secure and safer was (apples and oranges) compared to securing our borders.

Both are national security issues. However, our borders and immigration policies are our critical first line of defense, which should, without question, make them paramount and the number one priority in so far as national security is concerned.

Would you not agree?