It is not &#x27;taking the moral high ground&#x27; to stop intelligent agencies from dutifully doing their jobs of protecting our safety and interests, so long as this is actually the case.<p>I suggest were you to have the opportunity to sit in on Mr. Obama&#x27;s daily security briefings, you might have your eyes widened as to the scope of the violence that threatens us.<p>In Canada, where I live, our young Prime Minister had a rather negative tone about such things during the election, but the moment he was elected, and had visibility into the actual goings on, he changed his tune pretty quickly and the bills he was supposed to quash will remain intact.<p>Of course, lazy policemen wanting Twitter to do their work for them notwithstanding.