It's not as complicated as these guys are making it out to be. If you want people to trust you, stop doing things that violate their trust. And accept accountability / responsibility when you do the wrong thing.<p>IOW:<p>1. Stop the indiscriminate mass surveillance which ropes in data on people with no warrant.<p>2. Stop supporting the whole "parallel construction" nonsense which lets illegally collected data influence criminal trials.<p>3. When people like James Clapper commit perjury and lie to Congress, they should be fired and/or fined for their actions.<p>4. Quit with the nonsense rhetoric about how revealing the slightest detail of what you're doing, and how you do it, is somehow begging for a terrorist attack. The American people can handle a measure of risk - we have backbone. But we expect our government to be transparent and to be accountable - to us.<p>5. Stop the industrial espionage on foreign nations. Surveillance to detect threats is one thing, surveillance for economic advantage is quite another.<p>6. Stop using backdoor agreements with the UK and other nations (the "Five Eyes" in particular) to skirt around US law regarding what you can and can't do.<p>7. I'm sure there's more, but the above would be a good start.