I want to but I have fun being an ernest but utterly obstinate fuck towards them. Its funny watching someone arguing in bad faith just giving up in the face of an autist whos response to bad faith is to just keep going. I want to debate Kent Hovind and see how long it takes for him to rage quit because I hyperfocus on one point and mercilessly insult him in the most backhanded way possible.
The "silver lining" is that leadership showed their cards during J6, so intelligence agencies know who to watch. This would be the justification for giving up rights in the patriot act to fight terrorists.
In practice, we've never openly stopped anyone with those systems.
When it comes time for them to justify the invasion of privacy, they don't have any school shooters stopped, and they don't have any Unabombers stopped. They don't have any cases of stolen kids stopped. They'd be shouting all that from the rooftops to expand and extend that funding.
If they have actually stopped anyone, it's at super-secret spy game levels. The guys you're expecting them to stop aren't even a concern for them. Worse yet, they may actually be rooting for them.