Breakdown of Trust because of U.S. Spying

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   It is a no-brainer http://www.thefreedictionary.com/no-brainer  to acknowledge we have been spied on for decades in the U.S. It is also a given the Spy vs. Spy in other countries and programs to protect our security and safety in the U.S. are necessary. American embassies are notorious for having monitoring equipment and having bugs placed by "the enemy" as well. 

Wiretapping was considered illegal and nearly got Nixon impeached. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate#Wiretapping_of_the_Democratic_Party.27s_headquarters

With the coming of the Internet and cell phones, a new era of in depth personal spying became possible. With the terrorist attack on 9/11/01 the U.S. decided to take drastic measures in torture, gathering information, and monitoring not only combatants, but possible civilian "terrorists" who had committed no crimes and were thought to be potentially dangerous. 

As per 9/11-

 It was the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States,^[1] and indeed incurred more casualties than at the surprise attack at the Battle of Pearl Harbor. 
The American response was near-unanimous support for President George W. Bush's eventual angry declaration that this was an act of war. Al-Qaeda was quickly identified as behind the attacks, with key figures located in Afghanistan. Congress quickly passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which had the legal effect of a declaration of war. 
This involved the enforced cooperation of major search engine companies and telecommunication giants to install data gathering computers to effectively monitor nearly all private emails, phone conversations, and create a massive database including DNA information and personal profiles.  The advertisement and commercial industry would likewise gather information and turn some of it over to .gov. 
The scope of this far exceeded anything present in the old days of phone tapping. There is a newly built complex for massive storage of information greater than anything ever built with supercomputers and a staff of 200 in "the desert."  It would be against U.S. security interests to provide a link to data concerning it at this time. In the midst of a government shutdown this has become operational and is even more efficient in gathering information than any such center in history. 
Snowden's whistle blowing still is having massive effects as revelations of the extent of this monitoring hit the global media. Nothing in the content of the release of information has been effectively denied or proven false.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/opinion/zelizer-obama-nsa-world/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
With the unseen backlash as more and more details  of the extent of spying hit the press daily, it has hurt the respect and trust other nations have for America as an ally. These are bonds and support we need in the event of a powder keg blow up in Syria or other regions in the Middle East.
The NSA issue began with a debate about the proper domestic balance 
between civil liberties and counterterrorism and has now has extended 
into the realm of diplomacy.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/28/opinion/zelizer-obama-nsa-world/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Is this just a problem of the U.S. spying on world leaders? No, other countries are upset with new evidence of  spying on their private citizens. Some of these are not terrorists but simply are business men or those with powerful voices in their governments. 
France is furious. 
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-france-nsa-spying-us-ambassador-summoned-20131021,0,801051.story#axzz2j1sSTB3x
LONDON — France reacted angrily Monday to a news report of mass electronic surveillance of its residents by the U.S. National Security Agency, summoning the American ambassador to explain what it called unacceptable treatment by a close ally.

                                            Based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden,
 Le Monde reported that the agency’s intelligence dragnet collected 70.3
 million pieces of data on French phone communications in a single month
 beginning in December of last year. Calls to some telephone numbers 
triggered recordings of conversations, and text messages containing 
certain keywords were also automatically picked up, the French newspaper
 reported.

Le Monde said it appeared that the NSA collected data on “both people
 suspected of association with terrorist activities as well as people 
targeted simply because they belong to the worlds of business, politics 
or French state administration.”
Three major whistle blowers, former employees of NSA, are filing a lawsuit against the government and also have told of their attempts for years to report and stop what they considered a violation of constitutional rights and crossing the line. 
In a motion filed today, the three former intelligence analysts confirm 
that the NSA has, or is in the process of obtaining, the capability to 
seize and store most electronic communications passing through its U.S. 
intercept centers, such as the "secret room" at the AT&T facility in
 San Francisco first disclosed by retired AT&T technician Mark Klein
 in early 2006.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/three-nsa-whistleblowers-back-effs-lawsuit-over-governments-massive-spying-program
Conclusion:  None of this is secret and according to "the rules" of what may be posted on the net, even by intelligence employees and informants, it is already public knowledge.  The fine line is that what is public knowledge has become a lot less public. Now, with control of huge parts of the news media and Internet which redirects away from highly informational data, some information is either hard or nearly impossible to find. The elimination of web sites within hours publishing some stories leaves one with only the remnant of data in the search description.  Only this text may contain information where the actual text on the page the link leads to has no such text, or the link no longer exists.
The goes far beyond National Enquirer's Enquiring minds want to know". There are people whose  professional job is to tear up and discredit conspiracy authors and their pages which now, on occasion, may contain real news and data which can be verified. Obviously some rather famous authors are clearly delusional and deliberately create stories which are pure fiction. This is one of the greatest tools of the debunkers to say anyone criticizing the government and making bold and scary statements are mental and have no credibility. 
Was the attack from the Al Queda on 9/11, which we now support indirectly in Syria, a mandate to put in place programs which spy on everyone without their knowledge in the U.S. and abroad? Does this give them the right to  monitor innocent American's  friends, family, medical history, and create an in depth data base which includes their DNA and details of all of their personal life?  
What do the American people say?
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/poll-public-concerns-rise-spying-privacy
But a majority of Americans appear doubtful. Some 56 percent oppose 
the NSA's collection of telephone records for future investigations even
 though they do not include actual conversations. And 54 percent oppose 
the government's collection and retention of Internet metadata for 
future investigations that avoids actual email contents; only 34 percent
 favor such efforts.

Even stronger majorities oppose unauthorized government surveillance 
of phone calls and Internet mail traffic within the U.S. As many as 71 
percent do not want officials eavesdropping on U.S. phone calls without 
court warrants; 62 percent oppose collection of the contents of 
Americans' emails without warrants.
The majority of Americans do not like or approve following the recent leaks of information the extent their right to privacy has been violated.
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