Letters for June 13

Published June 12, 2013 4:00am ET



Is bigger criminal NSA or whistleblower?

As a former law enforcement officer way back in the day, I remember a few things when it comes to the law. You can’t arrest someone for thinking about committing a crime; you can only act after one is committed. In other words, you can’t speculate and surmise as to what someone may do — such as when our government is speculating that terrorists may commit a crime against us. The Patriot Act was designed to detect and stop our enemies, not gather information on private citizens in our country for future use against them.

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