We're currently running a long-term offshore experiment to see if 2A has any measurable impact on dragnet surveillance and the NSA.

There are plenty of things to complain about here, and that is one of them. But that authorization was passed by our elected representatives by a super majority and reauthorized by them multiple times. It was not done by a sneaky maneuver where the majority of congress voted against it but somehow it still became law.

And yet people were happy to call Snowden a traitor for breaking the news of it.