If the problem for you guys is that Snowden undermined the public trust, then my problem with Snowden is that he didn't do enough damage.
We could dismantle the NSA and every domestic surveillance system right now and we'd be as safe as we were yesterday. What we would lose, however, is
Corporations using the Government to
spy on Americans, and losing that is a GREAT thing.
But that's just a start. Next we need to crack down on private non-Government augmented Corporate surveillance.
I really don't care what anyone has to say about how we supposedly need this crap. That makes me hope even more that the American public loses confidence and trust in people in power. Lose the people's trust, lose the system in its entirety. Then we can start the process of starting over with a better system. Too bad for those who cling to the status quo: if you get your way we get the USSR all over again, except the corporations are the new Politburo.