Does this [1] from 2015 meet your criteria?

[1] It’s Time to Put an End to the NSA’s Bulk Collection of Americans’ Metadata https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/04/its-time-put-end-nsas...

I don't know what this has to do with the current administration...

PRISM is a good one...? National security letters as well. Black sites. The penal/prison system in general.

None of these originated in the current administration.

So what?

> This program was simply another extension of the US's march towards authoritarianism.

That was the original claim. You're the only one who's talking about the current administration.

onedogright: "I see plenty of examples of authoritarianism in the current U.S. administration"

Oooohk...

The NSA is not a part of the "administration?" Or are you just being overly sensitive and defensive of the "administration" because in the current paper-democracy four-year cycle, it happens to be run by republicans (who are always good and entirely infallible)?