I fail to see how civil rights legislation or Loving v Virginia allowed the creation of the NSA. It appears that most surveillance programs are operated under

I fail to see how civil rights legislation or Loving v Virginia allowed the creation of the NSA. It appears that most surveillance programs are operated under the foreign intelligence and/or defense umbrella, a part of government that has been centralized longer than the country itself exists. I'd also like to see a few examples of states vigorously opposing these programs. I mean – so many of them are willing to overstep their authority when it comes to hot-button issues such as the widespread voter fraud that some must have tried to get creative to stop surveillance, right?