>The United States has done tremendous good for humanity. But given our history of extralegal, unaccountable meddling in the foreign policy of other countries a

>The United States has done tremendous good for humanity. But given our history of extralegal, unaccountable meddling in the foreign policy of other countries and how spectacularly it's blown up in our faces over and over again, I must absolutely disagree with you. Source that shows where US surveillance has spectacularly blown up? >If this is the mindset of the "general opinion of the American public", I fear for the long-term future of rule of law in this country. Slippery-slope fallacy. No one cares about your fear of some scenarios you imagined.