LAST EDITED ON 06-07-13 AT 04:04 PM (EST)So, the secret warrants you object to are really the FISA warrants?
The current stories are being presented as one big mess, but I don't think we can evaluate these stories unless we take each one by itself.
Media warrants - IMO No.
FISA warrants - IMO Overall a necessary evil, but it might have been an overreach in the case of Verizon. The FISA Court hopefully provides adequate restraint.
PRISM - IMO, a useful tool, could be abused, but in some form it's almost indispensable these days.
I don't think PRISM uses warrants. It is focused on foreign intelligence. And (back to my above post) that's where I'm divided. I think we should be monitoring foreign related communications for suspicious activity, because we all (I am making an assumption here, I guess) want to prevent terrorist events if we can, and this in combination with other tools is really useful in that regard. But personally I do feel a little uneasy with this kind of entity.