Drudge Report

They reported that NSA recorded 124 billion phone calls in 30 days this year. This is Big Government running amok. Why all this surveillance of law-abiding citizens? We need a Congressional law passed, over the President's veto, to do three things. First, scale back immensely what scope of surveillance domestically is undertaken. Second, appoint for two year terms, a Congressional czar to oversee domestic electronic spying going on in the Executive Branch, so their operations are subject to outside, legislative supervision. Let that czar give monthly reports to House and Senate committees. Third, make the spooks submit plans to the czar, who will be granted veto power, should she feel it is overreaching; she will monitor the efforts of special judges to give search warrants for all operations of domestic surveillance, whereat the spooks will have to show just cause from the court to proceed. We need what privacy as we can muster. We have to keep federal espionage and police forces on a tight leash.