> Other nations might tolerate presidents they feel they can deal with controlling the NSA apparatus in their nation, but almost certainly will take steps to prevent Donald Trump from having the same tools.

That's an intereating point: the argument was always "even if the current regime does not use data collection for evil, the next one moght."

This is why I secretly hope Trump wins, just so all the pro NSA democrats get their collective heads out of their asses.