In other words, the U.S.A.'s national security interests bear little resemblance to those of Nazi Germany (I can't believe I have to type that). Fine, I'll con

In other words, the U.S.A.'s national security interests bear little resemblance to those of Nazi Germany (I can't believe I have to type that). Fine, I'll concede the singular moral uniqueness of the government of Germany from 1933 to 1945. How about the Stasi? The KGB? The COINTELPRO-era FBI? The Star Chamber? These were all arms of governments as legitimate as mine or any other, and their aims were exactly that of every other internal security agency. The harm they did was not some sort of moral corruption, it can't be cured by being the good guys or on the side of the good guys. These were evil organizations consisting of evil people because of what they did, not why they did it. An East German government without the Stasi is just yet another poorly run postwar client state. The Soviet Union without the KGB (and a few other atrocities) is just a large developing country with some ill-considered economic policies. Post Church Commission America is just a better version of America. When the children of ex-NSA employees lie to their friends that their father left when they were young because the truth would be embarrassing, it will be a better America still.