Wire taps?

I’m not sure I understand this. The President of the United States is supposed to cure every problem his people face from hangnails to terrorist attacks. He has his national security people record and computer mine (look for key words that indicate hostile intent like “bomb” etc. in phone calls going out of the country) He does not get a court order, and warn the terrorists that they are being monitored, for each of these individual wire taps focused on suspicious people. Now comes the part I don’t understand. There is a manufactured outcry about violating the rights of terrorists to privacy in their phone conversations?
Let me try and understand this. You have a terrorist living in your basement apartment. Of course he did not include terrorist when your lease application asked for occupation – he just paid you in cash. He is making phone calls to his terrorist friends in Europe, the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan whatever. You don’t want the law enforcement people to know that this person is a terrorist? You don’t want them to know he is going to blow up your bank? You don’t want them to be able to find out that he is going to blow up your house to do away with all witnesses so no information you could give would help them catch him?
This is not a case of the government listening to you make arrangements to move unreported income to an off shore bank. This is not the government listening to you arranging a clandestine love affair. This is not the government listening to you making a dentist appointment or phoning your sweetie.
This is war. These are people who hate you and want you, your family and our way of life destroyed.
The terrorist has sacrificed his civil rights when he/she became a terrorist. Armies are supposed to be governed by the Geneva Convention. There is no “ Convention” for terrorism they have no limits. Tie your law enforcement people’s hands and both you and your bank will be blown up.
Take a good look at the people who are screaming about this. They are opportunistic politicians who will use any stick to beat Bush and His administration. Most of them belonged to a party and an administration, which dithered and did nothing to deal with terrorism as it spread its tentacles across the world during Clinton’s time. The rest of the outcry is being fueled by the press who hates Bush on principle and want to create a news event. Wake up. Just imagine how all this furor has made the terrorists more careful and as you put restrictions on your law enforcement agencies they will have the “freedom” blow up both you and your bank.
Maybe I just don’t understand why individuals and a whole society wants to bare their throat to the butcher.