By all means. Then the government agent will just walk out the building, put on his "private citizen" ball cap, and resume spying using all the authorities any

By all means. Then the government agent will just walk out the building, put on his "private citizen" ball cap, and resume spying using all the authorities any random citizen would have. That's why I pointed out the state often has much more power, as we wouldn't bother having the state do it in the first place if anyone could do it for themselves.