If it is necessary to imprison 330 million people, because of six or a dozen terrorists, the terrorists do actually win.
The Bill of Rights exists, not because government granted it, or has any authority to reduce it, no matter how important they think a reason is for reducing it. The US fought in World War II while keeping its liberties, and when Nazi saboteurs landed in Florida, we captured then eventually hung them.
Face it, the FBI exists for domestic security, against enemies, foreign and domestic. You don’t need massive new agencies to do that. You don’t need to monitor all transportation and communications to do that. You do not need a police state to do that.
Concur. Many of these security issues need to be revisited, de-PC-loused, and recast in the light of constitutionalism and federalism.