The FBI has become substantially more powerful and, in the long term, far more dangerous than the Stasi.
In their wildest fantasies, Erich Mielke (director) & Markus Wolf (foreign operations chief), Stasi leaders from 1957 to 1989, never had the sophisticated tools for monitoring, locating, influencing, infiltrating, and threatening their serfs that today's ruling American communist party and its FBI has at its disposal...
You are correct.