Comment by aa-jv

>Has the technical and scientific community in the US already forgotten this huge breach of trust?

Yes, imho, there is a great deal of ignorance of the actual contents of the NSA leaks.

The agitprop against Snowden as a "Russian agent" has successfully occluded the actual scandal, which is that the NSA has built a totalitarian-authoritarian apparatus that is still in wide use.

Autocrats' general hubris about their own superiority has been weaponized against them. Instead of actually addressing the issue with America's repressive military industrial complex, they kill the messenger.