Why Is Domestic Surveillance Important

Domestic surveillance Have you ever felt like someone was watching you? The reality of the world we live in today is that people are watching us. There is a question standing: is the fact that the government is watching us constitutional or not? Is our privacy being infringed upon through the persistent prying fingers of those with higher authority? Many people have different views on this topic and there are many contributing factors to this issue. Domestic surveillance was put in place by George W. Bush after the terrorist attack on 9/11 in 2001. This allows the NSA (National Security Agency) to look into our emails, messages, history, and more: globally monitoring us. Through these people other agencies including the FBI access to information. this allows for terrorist attacks and other crimes to be spotted and stopped before they happen. However some argue
Its suggested that the Fourth Amendment in the constitution is being violated through searches of our phones leading to collections of electronic data. While information regarding terrorists its very important regarding our national safety and security many of the information they are gathering is of ordinary americans who are no threat to our country. creating a “needle in a haystack, our government has built the biggest haystack in history—and it is growing all the time.” Therefore making it harder to find the information that is threatening our nation through the ever growing amount of non threatening information of ordinary people that never stops coming in. Even with all of this information some believe not much is being done and say “Not only is the NSA's massive dragnet unconstitutional, the NSA has produced little to no evidence that the program has been effective.” (Ted Lieu and Joel