These "secret orders" are an abuse of power, and we already have many indications that they are being abused (eg: more used for going after drug dealers than terrorists, which was the "justification" for them originally.)

That we admit this, that our government is acting in a criminal fashion, in conflict with the constitution, and we have accepted it as "normal" is just proof that we are frogs who think the water is just fine.

We should be outraged and demanding prosecutions and investigations. But of course, who owns the prosecutors and the investigators? The government.

And we've been taught by government schools to be "good germans" (Eg: to give the benefit of the doubt and wide latitude to government.)