Pretend for a second that your advisers give you two options. Secretly sign bills to allow the gathering of data regarding US citizens from indirect sources, or allow a terrorist attack to happy under your watch as Commander-in-Chief.
You don't have all of the information. The big picture regarding cyber-security and national security in general is very complicated, please lets work together to come to a logical solution rather than blame one political party or candidate.
Policies are never perfect, especially when you involve a technology as new and complicated (technically and ethically) as the internet.
Most people are fully aware of the ability of the US government to spy on all communications. How can you expect the NSA, which has the mission of protect the US security systems and provide foreign intelligence, to have limits on it's information sources?
Is the real concern whether or not the FBI and other agencies have full access to the data the NSA collects? Patriot act might have allowed them to have more access.
You don't have all of the information. The big picture regarding cyber-security and national security in general is very complicated, please lets work together to come to a logical solution rather than blame one political party or candidate.
Policies are never perfect, especially when you involve a technology as new and complicated (technically and ethically) as the internet.
Most people are fully aware of the ability of the US government to spy on all communications. How can you expect the NSA, which has the mission of protect the US security systems and provide foreign intelligence, to have limits on it's information sources?
Is the real concern whether or not the FBI and other agencies have full access to the data the NSA collects? Patriot act might have allowed them to have more access.