Concern about surveillance need not imply that we should deny our government valuable tools. We have a legal process, for good or ill, set up to govern surveillance. If that legal process (FISA, say) is skirted, and assuming (as I do, until persuaded otherwise) that the President does not have inherent authority to ignore statute, then concern about surveillance may be quite warranted, even without denying its fundamental right to exist.
Commenting by HaloScan
