Mass surveillance

Donald Trump will now control drone assassinations and mass surveillance — still love them, Democrats?

Whistleblower Edward Snowden exposed to the world just how much the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program had grown. His leaks showed that the NSA was not just sucking up information on millions of Americans’ private communications; it was also spying on dozens of other countries and even listening to the phone calls of foreign heads of state.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel — whose personal phone calls were monitored by the U.S. in what may have been a violation of international law — was so incensed that she compared the Obama administration’s mass surveillance program to the work of the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany’s former Communist regime.

Much of the U.S. intelligentsia, Republicans and Democrats alike, has demonized Snowden as a traitor. Some have even accused him of being a foreign agent.