The problem with this is that the intelligence agencies don’t spy on congress in order to persecute people. They do it for leverage, and this is not hypothetica

The problem with this is that the intelligence agencies don’t spy on congress in order to persecute people. They do it for leverage, and this is not hypothetical: they did this going into the Iran deal in order to gain information to help the deal go through: https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-israel-nsa-cheerleaders-discover-value-of-privacy-only-when-their-own-is-violated/ https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-i... And in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence-commitee-cia-interrogation-report.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/01/world/senate-intelligence... > The report by the agency’s inspector general also found that C.I.A. officers read the emails of the Senate investigators and sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department based on false information When the people with guns start collecting leverage on the people who make laws, things will get ugly fast.