The problem is the executive branch has already under both parties have already signed off on this...

The legislative branch have chosen to willfully turn their eyes away on this...

The judicial branch has already provided tacit approval since the chief justice of the supreme court is to a large degree cosigning the constitutionality of this...

The people have decided that this is acceptable...

so its not really an 'issue', for me its like GWB, I didnt like him as a president but I had to aknowledge he was legitimately the president by the mandate of the people and in line with all required bureaucratic processes... similarly to how some feel about Obama...

and no its not that he is republican or not, i mean i think its become clear Obama has embraced these kind of grey area morally questionable but politically palatable solutions to a greater extent than GWB did. Its not political with me, its just from my perspective clear that sooner or later it will be abused, and it is such a potential seachange i doubt we will ever roll it back.

Hint: I would feel "safer" if former Stasi officials weren't looking at what we're doing and nodding approvingly, like a master who smiles as he raises a favored apprentice to the status of journeyman.

Nothing former Stasi officials think affect my judgement much, sorry.