FBI wants widespread monitoring of 'illegal' Internet activity

Robert Meuller, the FBI director, called for new legislation that would let the FBI monitor the internet for illegal activity. All internet traffic. 

Mueller said the proposal  "balances on one hand, the privacy rights of the individual who are receiving the information, but on the other hand, given the technology, the necessity of having some omnibus search capability utilizing filters that would identify the illegal activity as it comes through and give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point."

How in any does letting the government sniff all Internet traffic even nod at an individual's privacy rights? That sounds more like China than the USA. 

I wish they'd quit kicking the corpse of the 4th amendment -- it's dead already, let it rest in peace.