I am skeptical of any global political agreement and for that matter any government intervention on behalf of the environment. It is also ironic that activist (also Brooks) now refer to Exxon and other former corporate bogeymen rather uncritically over the Paris Climate Agreement decision. It is of course exactly these mega conglomerates and big corporations with their army of lawyers that benefit from these international agreements. Not to dissimilar from how some defended the EU and NAFTA as bastions of "free markets". Or like AJ defends Merkel - the epitome of the arrogant, out of touch, manipulative and dismissive European political class as a "liberal". 

My point with the NSA example is to look at what people actually do and not at their political caricatures. The Obama administration has been accused of politicising the NSA, IRS, media (Iran echo chamber) and prosecuted journalist and whistleblowers. So far - Trump has done nothing of the sort in scale or scope...