If it's "overreaching", I'm pretty sure it's not "securing the nation."

Dragnet surveillance just makes me paranoid, and my intuition is that it stifles, rather than accelerates, innovation --- well, except for the cryptography aspect; there is plenty of movement towards resisting the surveillance state(s) on that front.

Your opinion could be summarized as, "it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it" --- when in fact, no one has to do it. Doing so just leads to Cold War-style arms races.

One of my favorite quotes from a simpler time: "Gentlemen do not read each others' mail." -- Henry L. Stimson