NSA Wiretaps - Unconstitutional?

How many Americans will have to be murdered by terrorists in our nation before our country realizes that we are in a war? Did 9-11-01 happen? We seem to be experiencing collective amnesia. The terrorist guerrillas want to kill us. They are very clear about their goals. Today, a federal judge, US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, appointed by Jimmy Carter, ruled that the NSA Wiretap Surveillance Program was unconstitutional. Yes, for normal criminal behavior but do the same rules apply when we are fighting terrorists? The program is designed to stop the attacks of war before they happen, before thousands of us are murdered. Our criminal justice system is designed to become active after a crime has been committed, not usually before. Our constitutional freedoms should not attach to terrorists who want to kill us whether they are in the United States or if they are on foreign soil. The ACLU brought the case, as I understand it, on behalf of journalists and others who say they cannot do their jobs, talking to their foreign sources. Is this really about freedom of speech or is it about newspapers making money? Is it really newspapers versus our security? Are the journalists putting their stories ahead of our safety? One has to wonder. I don't know the answer. I do know that some day soon, we must start treating the terrorizing guerrillas as enemy combatants, not as criminals. It's a good thing for us that FDR and the men and women who fought in WWII overseas and sacrificed here at home were more clear about the enemy they faced and the stakes that were involved. As I responded to a comment, perhaps we need to see if Judge Taylor's ruling is upheld. If it is upheld all the way to the Supreme Court, we'll have to see who is blamed for the next terrorist attack on American soil. President Bush, no doubt! What does he do then? Maybe he should just shrug his shoulders and say, "The Imperial Court made me do it." I support our freedoms (all of them). I cannot understand how the freedoms of our Constitution attach to everyone around the world wherever they are, especially those who say they want to murder us. Not only do they say they want to kill us, they go about doing it rather effectively. I recommend the Patriot Post.US as a reference of their effectiveness. The terrorists have made the world their battleground; therefore, they are enemy combatants wherever and whenever they strike. God bless you and God bless America!