It's flamebait because it's not a new critique, and it's tangential to the article. So it's likely to attract people trying to rebut your critique, but neither your argument not the rebuttal would add anything new.
If there was a thread about someone discussing us spying methods and policies against non-us citizens, your comment would not be flamebait. See the difference?
most comments are thoughts and opinions and only few provide new critique. The OP comment here, though presented in an obnoxious way, is new critique because no one else has discussed the civil liberty bias deployed by agents. Though the OP presents this in an offensive way, which is maybe breaking a different rule than just "new critique"
If there was a thread about someone discussing us spying methods and policies against non-us citizens, your comment would not be flamebait. See the difference?