It&#x27;s easy to sit behind a computer or on a debate stage and repeat trite aphorisms like &quot;we can&#x27;t trade our privacy for security&quot;. It&#x27;s very different when you are personally responsible for the security of not only 300 million Americans, but of the entire world. When you get briefings every day about the activity of people and organizations who will do everything that they can to kill as many innocent people as possible.