Are you REALLY equating NSA to the KGB?
The NSA is a lot closer and thus more dangerous.
Does the NSA take people out into the woods and shoot them? No
Does the NSA monitor the citizens of this country? yes
Does the NSA pass that information on to other government agencies? yes
Is that information used to persecute people based on their political or moral beliefs? yes
Is the NSA effectively creating a ‘file’ on every American citizen? Yes
Will that file be used against those citizens in the future? yes