Today every terrorist with access to a pocket Constitution

The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd.

Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?

Does the wholesale interception of electronic communications based upon the premise of someone might be a terrorist make us any safer?

The Ft. Hood shootings, the Boston bombings, and other evil acts, were not prevented by any of the un-American spying by the alphabet gangs, furthermore, when viewed with an objective eye, acts of terror have actually decreased in the last few decades. Some may argue the point that this reduction is a direct result of the omnipresent intrusions by the Five Eyes crew, and if so I'd like to hear some reasonable explanations as to why some rather major attacks have occurred in spite of the spying.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror...

Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke? How can any part of a covenant between a government and its people be considered to be Top Secret?