The biggest political changes resulting from the Snowden revelations will be on the international stage. The US will lose, hell, already IS losing considerable power and prestige. That's why those IT giants were meeting at the White House - to give Obama hell over lost business. And it's not just the US IT giants who are losing business. Brazil just recently awarded a $4.5 billion jet fighter contract to Saab of Sweden; backlash against the US for its industrial espionage was cited as the reason the previously favored Boeing was not chosen.

Exactly right.