There's no need to even go back that far. The treatment of David Miranda, Manning's imprisonment, Kiriakou's imprisonment, Snowden's ensured imprisonment should he ever leave the safety of his current umbrella, continued harassment and infiltration of anarchist and leftist orgs in California and Oregon and elsewhere by all levels of law enforcement.
The FBI continues to disproportionately expend resources on environmental groups despite no cases of loss of life from green direct action, while admitting themselves that right-wing militias present a greater domestic threat than even the dreaded foreign terrorism they're so happy to prove they're protecting us from by spending years deliberately radicalizing and then entrapping harmless fools.
Law enforcement motivations cannot be ever trusted when it comes to your privacy.
Law enforcement in its current form can't be trusted period. It's too biased with its own political and financial agendas and does very little in terms of law enforcing and too much of concocting.
If mental healthcare got a sliver of the attention and budgets defense+LE get i personally think we'd all be better off.
The FBI continues to disproportionately expend resources on environmental groups despite no cases of loss of life from green direct action, while admitting themselves that right-wing militias present a greater domestic threat than even the dreaded foreign terrorism they're so happy to prove they're protecting us from by spending years deliberately radicalizing and then entrapping harmless fools.
Law enforcement motivations cannot be ever trusted when it comes to your privacy.