> You're missing the fundamental point that we don't think the government should have this power. I'm not missing that at all, but I am saying it's hypocritica

> You're missing the fundamental point that we don't think the government should have this power. I'm not missing that at all, but I am saying it's hypocritical to say "just go get a warrant, geez". If it had been that easy FBI would already being doing it. It's easy to just mandate some social construct you'd like to achieve, but that does mean you also have to accept the consequences. The consequences of "no foreign network intelligence" isn't to merely make it a bit more difficult for NSA to do their job, it's to completely eliminate the ability of NSA to do their job, with all of the counter-terror consequences that will entail from that. While you may be perfectly willing to have the rest of America take on that risk, 3000 people at a time, don't act like you can have your cake and eat it too by simply offering up an alternative course of action which can never be implemented in practice.