Secretly and unconstitutionally feeding evidence to local law enforcement for petty crimes. Blackmailing judges and politicians. Giving (selling?) information about US citizens to foreign countries. Spying on significant others. Industrial espionage.
Aside from the first one, is there any hard evidence of these? "Industrial Espionage" != spying on foreign companies with no commercial benefit, for example.
Wait, actual falsification? Do you have a source for that?
I always thought it was the NSA telling local cops "go bark up that tree", and they make a series of "lucky guesses" that lead to an otherwise legitimate arrest and prosectution.
1. The government lied and pretends not to engage in domestic espionage.
2. To support that lie, the government didn't do much bad stuff with the results of its domestic spying.
3. Thus, the domestic spying wasn't a big deal.
I think we're past that point now.