The unlimited access to emails, phone conversations and all the rest by the law enforcement agencies isn't justified by the threat. A year later and not another successful attack. How long will it be before we realize that was a fluke because we were refusing to face the threat. You might be able to sock me from behind once but not a second time.
Instead of creating a new office of Homeland Security how about taking the money spent on foodstamps and welfare and all the rest of the socialist garbage and put it into the present law enforcement agencies and close the borders, deport all illegal aliens and others whose visas have lapsed and put the troops on the borders? If our own troops can't guard our own borders then what do they exist for? Mexican Federales regularly stage incursions into this country and fire upon local law enforcement. The situation is utterly absurd.
The threat doesn't come from American citizens but from those from outside this nation. Therefore those people should be restricted from entry, examined if they are already here, and deported if there is any doubt. It is time to demand that political correctness be refuted, rejected and overthrown.
If the First Amendment is abandoned, then who is going to stand for those that remain? Like a broken clock, even liberals are right twice a day. The Federal Gov shouldn't be investigating its own citizens in the fight against foreign terrorism. It should be investigating foreigners.
And if they don't like it, they can go back where they came from.
If you will recall, the Homeland Defense was created to coordinate the various agencies to work together. Unfortunately, they were not doing that before Sept 11th. The administration has stated that they well know, and take seriously the fact that their most important duty is to provide for the common defense. The things that trouble you have always been done, they are not new at all.