Let me ask this: who are you? What do you believe? If fanaticism is “a redoubling of effort, having lost sight of the original goal”, have you not become fanatics of national security? What are you protecting? Freedom? You are destroying it. You are creating an apparatus of repression of a scale and sophistication that it makes simple phone tapping almost virtuous. Even if you personally have good ethics, you can be fired, can you not? You report to the President, do you not, who can sculpt your agency in any way he pleases?
I ask again: would the chaos of a nuclear detonation or mass biological attack not still be preferable to a perfect autocratic regime, in which the thirst for personal growth, for wholeness, for Goodness will go entirely unsatisfied? In which we live like the automatons of the Thing’s realm in “A Wrinkle in Time”?
You can “cure” cancer with bubonic plague. You can prevent the replication of cancer cells by destroying the host. But you cannot create life with death, and you cannot create freedom with tyranny.
Think carefully about the consequences of what you are doing. What you did today, what you plan to do tomorrow. What sort of world do you want your children–nieces, nephews–to live in?