His crusade from the beginning has been anti-surveillance in the US. Yup. What a lot of people in the US Government forget is that a lot of other countrie

His crusade from the beginning has been anti-surveillance in the US. Yup. What a lot of people in the US Government forget is that a lot of other countries look to us for guidance for what is and is not acceptable. Now every country in the world that was previously criticized for building a surveillance state can now point at the US and say "Why does it matter what I'm doing, they are already doing it and doing so on a much greater scale". Is that really the legacy this country wants to have?