I would like you to consider the issue concerning the assistance that major telecommunications companies provided to the National Security Agency which included collecting information on Americans' phone calls and emails. See e.g. http://time.com/3999527/att-nsa-spying/.

As a result, do the mechanisms for accountability sufficiently protect the rights of individuals or do they impose unacceptable hurdles that interfere with agency action?

Does the agency have too much discretion or not enough?

Are the due process concerns and other constitutional limitations providing sufficient safeguards in light of the changing threats we face or are privacy concerns overplayed?