The US government is not a monolithic group of people but a complex constellation of players that normally keep it other in check, and they are often not very powerful.
There is no slippery slope. The niceties of the law end where you make someone with actual power really angry. Journalists tend to understand that. Renegades who need a demonstration will get one.
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