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.
"Why are they tracking YOU AND ME?
IMHO, this is a tactic old leftist/communist regimes would have been proud of."
They aren't tracking you and me. They're looking at patterns of phone dialing. And no, the things I spoke of that happened during WWII did not use or require warrants. When you're searched at an airport, no warrant is involved. When the gov. requires you to submit a census form, no warrant is involved. When the police search your car based on reasonable suspicion, no warrant is involved. The Constitution does not require warrants for all intrusions into people's privacy, so long as such intrusions are deemed "reasonable" by the courts.
As far as I'm concerned, W's actions are moderate, highly reasonable, and appropriate. And no, the Communists would not be proud, mainly for that very reason.