What the hell does any of what you posted have to do with the NECESSITY of obtaining a proper search warrant, as required by the Fourth Amendment?
You are evading the central issue: Blanket surveillance on every American citizen!
I don’t give a rat’s ass about intent - CAPABILITY is what matters.
You are one of those who would willingly expand the powers and scope of government, as established in the Constitution and further by the BOR, just to have “security” from whatever new bogeyman the government invents - or else creates w/o considering, or worse ignoring, the unintended consequences (as was the case with OBL)
The government had, prior to 9/11, ALL the tools it needed to do the job - The ONLY issue was that Clinton REFUSED to do the job. End of story!
All your freaking naive and asinine justifications do nothing to alter that reality!
Except that it's not true. The only surveillance that goes on "without a search warrant" is of foreign terrorists. American calls are not recorded, nor are records that are kept looked at unless by court order.
I for one don't care if the U.S. government has on file all my phone calls. Verizon Wireless already does that. I can look up all my calls online.