Yes! It is ludicrous and laughable. Analyzing phone call traffic to look for clusters of callers associated with al Qaeda is a very good thing to do, exploits our technology and poses absolutely no invasion of privacy.
Only because idiocy rules in the ignorant and dumb political media culture can this be presented as it is.
Well, why stop there? Let's allow the FBI to inspect our homes without a warrant. Pull over cars and search them without probable cause. Make all of us submit DNA samples for a national database. We can really catch all the terrorists then.