Does Domestic Spying Help the United States?

Domestic spying is overall, a death trap for all those who value freedom. Since the president has the power to command wiretaps without a court order, a heightened "Executive Power" is on the rise. As long as he can get a court order within three days of the actual wiretap, he is in the clear. This is a total breach of security, because, as Krauthammer explains that people weren't told because of dangerous sources finding out, it still supports the fact that people weren't told of what was going on. As Barr goes on to say, "Tomorrow, it may be your phone calls or e-mails that will be swept up into our electronic infrastructure and secretly kept in a growing file attached to your name." If we had more trust in our government, this would be no problem, because we would believe that they had our best interests at heart. But, with different debated conspiracies, Americans' can never be too watchful over the government: a mustang fighting under the reins of the people.