Although the Constitution guarantees many rights, the Constitution does not guarantee the right to individual privacy. Because the US is a technologically enhanced country, government officials and other organizations can “tap on” their peoples’ personal lives and conversations through telephone calls, emails, and many other modes of communication. While many people would disagree that wiretapping protects individual lives, wiretapping should be permitted because the average individual’s phone calls and emails revolve around the same focuses, and international threats and terrorist attacks happen randomly.
Wiretapping should be permissible to protect citizen lives from international threats. Most terrorist attacks are contrived during random times, random occasions, and random public areas Therefore, the US government and its organizations must be alert and ready to gauge the disturbing plans or threats from any foreign countries at any moment of the day . In 2003, Collin Powell---an English translator—suspected that from a set of intercepted phone calls between high-ranking Iraq military officials that the officials were planning an attack (Source E). On which country? The US had no idea, but in all of the recorded calls, each of the officers would ask what he should do so that …show more content…
In 2013, a young man by the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev activated two homemade bombs as the first few runners of the Boston Marathon approached the halfway mark of the race. Hundreds of people were injured; three people died. What is disturbing about the bombing is that no one suspected the threat. By the time the FBI and the police arrived at the crime scene, they were too late. Marathoners who had trained months to participate in the running activity had their limbs and legs blown
Wiretapping should be permissible to protect citizen lives from international threats. Most terrorist attacks are contrived during random times, random occasions, and random public areas Therefore, the US government and its organizations must be alert and ready to gauge the disturbing plans or threats from any foreign countries at any moment of the day . In 2003, Collin Powell---an English translator—suspected that from a set of intercepted phone calls between high-ranking Iraq military officials that the officials were planning an attack (Source E). On which country? The US had no idea, but in all of the recorded calls, each of the officers would ask what he should do so that …show more content…
In 2013, a young man by the name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev activated two homemade bombs as the first few runners of the Boston Marathon approached the halfway mark of the race. Hundreds of people were injured; three people died. What is disturbing about the bombing is that no one suspected the threat. By the time the FBI and the police arrived at the crime scene, they were too late. Marathoners who had trained months to participate in the running activity had their limbs and legs blown