What type of intelligence operations should the government be allowed to use for national security?

[BrentWil]

Recent events have shown that many on the board have a problem with the government use of phone data (phone calls, lengths of time of calls, etc) used for national security reasons. This is despite the fact that the data was attained by a warrant and any other use of the data would require further court approval. To me, that seems like a pretty good balance, at least when it comes to National security.

So the question is,if this is a problem, what should the government be allowed to do when it comes to national security?

[One_Life_To_Give]

1. Bug Putin's bedroom

We ask these people to violate the laws of Enemies and Allies alike. Hopefully we knew about Putin's' marriage troubles before he did. Just as we expect to know alot of details about the men with their fingers on the triggers of ICBM's aimed at us.

[Trillo]

2. What sorts of intelligence operations should be used by citizens for security?

Should citizens be spying on their neighbors? Tapping each other phones?

[reformist2]

3. It's the storage of data that's the problem. There may be no solution to that, other than to starve

the beast of the data it wants.

[morningfog]

4. It was a bullshit, overbroad warrant to data mine.

The government should be bound, always, by the constitution. This should go without saying.

[arely staircase]

5. these two revolutionary spy gadgets

this is worth the 5 second commercial to see what was considered futurist in the mid 1960s:

[musiclawyer]

6. It's not that hard

Keep data of who comes in and who goes out of the country. If someone comes in from outside over whom intelligence has a concern, then watch them like any detective and if the person provides probable cause then get a warrant. Same thing applies with domestic suspects. Good ole police work should be easier, not harder with new technologies. The program we have now is wrong on so many levels. ....