Recent revelations have pointed out that in the last several years, many of our government agencies have been collecting the emails, text messages, phone calls, and internet activity of all US citizens, even without the suspicion of any wrongdoing. This activity would appear to be a violation of the IV Amendment of the US Constitution. Some may argue that this collection of data is all legal under the Patriot Act. Yet one of the Republican authors of that act, Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, feels the government has betrayed the Patriot Act's mandate  LINK:     http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/02/04/nsa-surveillance-patriot-act-revelations/5203005/