"...but as a Conservative I can't support such a colossal old-style communist government-type operation. "
Do you /did you support the opening of private mail, monitoring of phone calls, telegrams, etc., during WWII? Or, was that an old-style communist-type operation as well?"
I don't know enough about WW2 to tell give you an answer...but if the surveillance was done with warrants, then, yes, I support it, or if it was done on non-citizens living in the US, then yes, I support it. And, of course, if it was done outside our borders, then, yes, I support it. None of that strikes me as un-American or as Big Goverment invasiveness. Compiling records and screening millions of phone calls of ordinary American citizens do. Why are they tracking YOU AND ME?
IMHO, this is a tactic old leftist/communist regimes would have been proud of.