Traditionally many things were permitted for the sake of war that were never permitted for the sake of domestic crime affairs.
We have a problem here but not what most people think, Bulb. It’s a problem of calling war, crime-fighting.
There are constitutional provisions for what is a war. We might not always like it, but that’s the best the Constitution has afforded.
As much as people want to toss around the notion of us being at war we are not. Or, perhaps we are now in a perpetual war where we never fight to win and this s the new normal.
The government can not have it both ways here. They refuse to actively fight the immigration problem, they refuse to communicate that Muslim immigration and visits are the leading cause of terrorism in the US, and they then want to say we are at war in order to ferret out the bad onions they take away our rights.
The truth is, if something on that phone is so important and it’s the “only” way to get the data... We have already lost. Our intelligence apparatus is nutured and ineffective.
I agree with the notion of fighting a war for the sake of winning a war. To destroy and kill your enemies. This government is just putting out fires.