Arguments to justify phone eavesdropping and email monitoring by our intelligence-gathering agencies have long centered around the needs of national security.

Such capabilities by definition must be fast when it comes to sorting data. (We’ve all seen endless ‘where’s the bomb?’ scenarios on ’24’ emphasizing a need for speed.)

The American public should demand lawmakers push the NSA to kick that high-tech system into overdrive, and produce emails linked to the lawless in public office.

You can’t have it both ways: if it’s an effective system, it’s got limitless capabilities.

What good is NSA surveillance-gathering, if it can’t be used against lawbreakers?

Think about it: if it can track down fast-moving terror cells bent on doing evil against Americans, it should be able to catch an old lady bent on hiding her wrong-doing.

NSA intel-gathering casts a wide net…by necessity, lightning-fast…

…it’s time to sort through the smelly fish in Hillary’s Catch-of-the-Day.