Big scandals that led to... prosecutions of the people involved at a high level? Systemic change?

Come on... Snowden told us that we were all being spied on and we made some movies, some books, a lot of blog posts and that was it.

Abu Ghraib? The people literally on film doing things were prosecuted, and it was passed off as an essentially low-level problem.

Gitmo still exists and has prisoners.

We invaded Iraq on a lie, literally lied to the UN about a nuclear threat that didn't exist. Elected that guy a second time, just like Reagan and Nixon and Trump.

What we're good at is public debate that goes nowhere and losing wars in the Middle East.