This is a political opinion. I don't like abuse of power and FISA is ripe for abuse. The right exploits fear and we are getting worse than we bargained for. We think we're safe, but security vs. privacy isn't the zero sum game our government paints it to be. Trading liberty for security is a false choice. We can have both privacy and security at the same time. This attitude of using ubiquitous video and audio surveillance seemingly everywhere as a crime prophylactic is suffocating.
Ever since high school when FISA was first introduced to Congress, I thought FISA could be perverted into Orwellian surveillance. I was young when I first heard about FISA. Debating was still done with shoe boxes full of 3 x 5 index cards. We got our news via newspapers and the network evening news with Walter Cronkite. The original FISA law had bi-partisan support. Ted Kennedy sponsored it and nine additional Senators ranging from Strom Thurmond to Daniel Inouye cosponsoring it.
I wasn't able to organize or voice my arguments against FISA in an articulate manner back then. Generally, people who thought they were older and wiser were "for" FISA under this general premise:
You have nothing to hide. Why are you worried about this? This law doesn't target you. These people [terrorists] are out to kill us and have to be stopped!It was a lie then and it still is today. Constant surveillance is our version of Minority Report. The various agencies collect everything, then when the frame arrives, investigators go through the collection looking for the picture to fill it. We might be innocent, but once targeted; chances are you won't beat the frame.