Today on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) said Americans are "not safer" from terrorism. Many terrorist groups, he said, are finding it more effective to plan multiple, smaller attacks and fly under the radar rather than carry out large, full-scale attacks. This shift in strategy is a main reason that US intelligence agencies have broadened their spying tactics, including monitoring and recording all private communications and Internet activities. Of course, this has raised a great debate, as Rep. Rogers points out.

We're fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community that is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats and so we have got to shake ourselves out of this pretty soon and understand that our intelligence services are not the bad guys. The bad guys [are] Al Qaeda….

Rep. Rogers is admitting here that gathering of private information has not made America safer from acts of terrorism. But is he implying that the government needs its citizens to step out of the way and let the feds gather anything they need in order to identify a threat? And you out there, you OK with President Obama deciding who the government can target for surveillance?