The folks they monitor are not regular folks. Be glad these people are being monitored. They try to blend in and have made friends with some of the everyday folks that they have met. They never talk about their work, even to us. I pray for my kids safety everyday. What they do is not easy and is not without risk. I am hoping the next assignment is stateside.
I'm sure you're a nice lady. And I'm from a family just like yours and said the same things 20 years ago.
But your kids are 8 times more likely to be killed by a cop than a Muslim terrorist. You are not going to be molested by a terrorist if you dare fly in an airliner. A Muslim is highly unlikely to mistakenly bust down your door and shoot your dog. Muslim terrorists aren't extorting 1/3 of your income.
And you don't know WHAT your family is doing at work. I'm sure they're nice folks. But nice folks can do wrong things for the right reasons.
Sy Hersh may be a lefty nut. But he said something very troubling last week. Ed Snowden was a nobody contractor. How many thousands of NSA and TSA employees knew of these unconstitutional acts (& more)and did nothing?