Obama Steps Up Pressure for Renewal of Surveillance Measures

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3. I am glad the bulk collection of phone records

is ending. I don't think that accomplished much. I don't see anything wrong though with keeping an eye on phone records on a case by case basis, as the article suggests. There are hardly any pay phones any more, so people are verbally communicating through phones or other methods like Skype.

If a person is planning some terror act, then there is nothing wrong with monitoring that. The NSA will get it wrong sometimes, but you don't know until you actually listen to a conversation. It's a catch 22. How do you know unless you have a method to find out? If someone is going to listen to me on the phone gab on and on about nothing, then they're wasting their time. I don't necessarily like it, but in the grand scheme of things, I actually don't even care. I will bore you to death!

However, it only takes one terrorist to slip through the cracks. You still have to have some method to prevent that. I value my privacy, but I would still rather be safe than sorry. I'd hate to see another 9-11.