"AMERICAN CITIZENS' PRIVACY VERSUS THE GOVERNMENT SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS"

Individual privacy for all American citizens is fully guaranteed and protected in the Amendment 4 of the United States constitution which is also part of the Bill of Rights. This Amendment 4 was officially adopted as one of the supreme laws of the United States since March 1, 1792 to date. The Amendment 4 states clearly that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The recent revelation from the American fugitive Edward Snowden, a former contractor employee of the America's National Security Agency (NSA) that exposed the secret surveillance program of this agency which involved the collection of the records of the phone calls, internet searches, emails and texts of all Americans without following the letter of the law in the Amendment 4 is considered by many Americans as the direct invasion and violation of their personal privacy since this secret government program violates the legal provisions of this Amendment 4. 

The federal government of America also has the fundamental constitutional responsibilities to protect all Americans, their properties and the America's government interests from both the domestic and the international terrorism worldwide. The terrorists all over the world have now migrated from their traditional or the conventional methods of operations into the digital age and the information technology era. The government of the United States will not easily win her global war against terrorists using the traditional methods today in 2013 without invading this digital terrain in order to be able to track down these terrorists in their own new game.

This modern way of fighting terrorism that the American government is using today will always cross into the privacy of all Americans who resides in the digital realm and this approach will also continue to violate the letter and the spirit of this Amendment 4 of the United States constitution either now and in the years to come. In conclusion, the government of America will need to put an effective administrative oversight in place to monitor this program properly and to prevent any abuse of this program by the security men and women who collect the personal or the private information of all Americans in order to be able to protect us from our known enemies today.