You've got a lot more faith that extralegal shenanigans won't happen than I do, for sure. Snowden's leaks have shown us that the US government will do anything

You've got a lot more faith that extralegal shenanigans won't happen than I do, for sure. Snowden's leaks have shown us that the US government will do anything if it thinks it can get away with it, the law be damned. Besides. What happened with Bradley/Chelsea Manning is all "legal", and that amounts to straight-up torture.