Then, one can hope, the government might actually be forced to engage in meaningful discussion about whether their ridiculously expensive and obviously damaging espionage programs make sense.
Which is basically moot, since they're both on the side of "national security".
Which more or less translates to "we can do what we like to protect you from terrorism, no we won't answer your questions at the risk of helping terrorists, and yes you absolutely must pay us billions to do it, or we will all die in a fiery ball of terrorism".
And if you doubt any of this, well, we have some questions we'd like to ask you about the nature of your trip, sir.
Then, one can hope, the government might actually be forced to engage in meaningful discussion about whether their ridiculously expensive and obviously damaging espionage programs make sense.