I think half the comments in this thread are missing this point. The story at hand isn't mass surveillance like in the post-9/11 days. It's not the kind of drag

I think half the comments in this thread are missing this point. The story at hand isn't mass surveillance like in the post-9/11 days. It's not the kind of dragnet that will scoop your grocery list and netflix habits while looking for Al Qaeda. It's very much targeted surveillance. The problem is who they are targeting and why. And they seemingly are targeting people serving public interests. Some of whom ended up dead. Jamal Khashoggi wasn't going to come to Thankgiving at my house or anything, but his reporting on the corruption in the Saudi government was making the world a better place by whatever little margin he could push the needle. And really, as much as the surveillance is crap, it does belie the point that he was also physically murdered. A point that didn't generate a lot of sympathy from the leader of the US despite him actually having a personal connection.