How is the NSA going to stop doing something they've never admitted to doing?
Many of them will be cringing at Abu Graib ... its about real oversight and balance of power and correct policy.
More probable is renaming PRISM and (if the political heat [sorry] warrants it) splitting it into smaller entities, and then re-mount [ok, I'll stop now] the business-as-usual bike, as though nothing had ever happened.
I know what you mean though. My point is that you need the political will, and politicians are way too scared of a bomb going off, and the people forgetting that they demanded privacy, asking why the NSA didn't magically know of it in advance.
I do think the people need to once and for all decide on what they want, and once decided, be reminded of it every year or so.
My opinion is that Im happy to take more risk of being killed in a terror attack and keeping freedoms. Since one is about 1000 times more likely to be killed in a car crash, I reckon we can have some freedom back.