Regarding unwarranted surveillance of Americans not suspected of a crime (and by extension, our allies):

Throughout my longish life, these things have not changed.

~All federal politicians support/expand it and then obfuscate their part.

News orgs don't/won't cover it (most of the time). The reason is every possible reason. Stated differently: Reluctance is a forgone conclusion; every editor/journalist has their own why.

There is an excess of voters who compulsively give Gov the benefit of the doubt. At least where Gov favors it's interests over ours. (modern version: Where Gov acts in good faith and places our interest first, wound-up voters endlessly crap all over that [because agendas].)

Everyone is always attacking everyone else at all times, its not just the US.

Well, yes, but we hear quite a bit about China or Russia or North Korea or wherever attacking us.

I've quite literally seen people ask "why don't we attack them back?"

Maybe we don't hear about it because they write about it in private and/or in foreign languages lol.

Never trust the law of averages. I don't want to say that the US is exceptional, but assuming it's like every other country give-or-take is a horrifically bad assumption.

China did publish some information once for a while. But the information is usually in Chinese and lacking details.

If we were in Russia or China, we'd likely hear about US actions in this area quite a bit more. With allies, well, there's a lot of mutual back scrubbing going on.