Open Email to Sen. Cruz (TX):
Dear Sen. Cruz,
Thank you for your form letter concerning operations of the National Security Agency (NSA).
You said you support programs that can detect impending threats to our homeland or diplomatic and military facilities abroad, but that we must strike an appropriate balance between remaining vigilant against terrorism and protecting the civil liberties guaranteed to the American people by the Constitution.
Dear Sen. Cruz,
Thank you for your form letter concerning operations of the National Security Agency (NSA).
You said you support programs that can detect impending threats to our homeland or diplomatic and military facilities abroad, but that we must strike an appropriate balance between remaining vigilant against terrorism and protecting the civil liberties guaranteed to the American people by the Constitution.
Well said, and I agree
wholeheartedly!
However, when government does something, it usually does it to excess. The action of the NSA is a case in point.
The NSA has no justification for collecting phone records of all phone calls of US citizens. Presumably, the NSA takes the attitude that every US citizen is a potential terrorist. While there is a semblance of logic in that position, it does not meet the logical standards of probability. For that reason, I am adding adamantly opposed to the NSA collecting telephone information, not only on me but every other US person in the US, unless the NSA has some other justification. "Other justification" could be information provided by foreign governments, by our own CIA through interrogation of known terrorist suspects, etc. In other words, collection of telephone information should be based upon the names of specific individuals, who are suspect and whose suspicion has been developed from other sources. Without that limitation, the NSA is imposing on the civil liberties guaranteed to the American people by the Constitution, and as a Senator you should be vigorously objecting.
However, when government does something, it usually does it to excess. The action of the NSA is a case in point.
The NSA has no justification for collecting phone records of all phone calls of US citizens. Presumably, the NSA takes the attitude that every US citizen is a potential terrorist. While there is a semblance of logic in that position, it does not meet the logical standards of probability. For that reason, I am adding adamantly opposed to the NSA collecting telephone information, not only on me but every other US person in the US, unless the NSA has some other justification. "Other justification" could be information provided by foreign governments, by our own CIA through interrogation of known terrorist suspects, etc. In other words, collection of telephone information should be based upon the names of specific individuals, who are suspect and whose suspicion has been developed from other sources. Without that limitation, the NSA is imposing on the civil liberties guaranteed to the American people by the Constitution, and as a Senator you should be vigorously objecting.
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