one thing you have to ask. is the integrity of such people intact?
in a surveillance state, the nsa organism may easily seek to assure its survival by using its levers of power to force its own preferences.
feinstein is acting just as much like a person who has been compromised as a person who cares about public security to the exclusion of privacy.
trust in the whole system disintegrates when a shadowy state exists behind the curtain.