More on Presidential Power and Original Sin

Sorry it's taken me a while to return to this topic, but I want to clarify an issue raised by Rick's response to my post about the implications of original sin for the President's domestic surveillance program.  I don't presume the insight necessary to pronounce the surveillance program as categorically un-Christian; rather, I object to Christians' failure even to engage publicly the tension between this Administration's security-driven consolidation of authority and a non-negotiable belief in the fallen nature of those doing the consolidating.  Maybe the threat of terrorism is so pressing that the present course is prudent.  But Christians' foundational conception of human nature should at least be part of the conversation.

Rob