Spying is a mental disease
We've learned that at the NSA, mid-level managers would try to recruit lower level employees to report on conversations in the lunchroom, in order to glean intelligence of the order of office politics. A total Scanner Darkly situation, how sane people can go on year after year like that is something for the psychiatrists to figure out.
Read 'Harlot's Ghost' - at some point the CIA had become a completely dysfunctional agency trembling in a paranoid mental clusterfuck because there was a mole hiding under every desk.
Spycraft has its place, but when you've built up institutions with hundreds of thousands of spies, eventually the situation becomes quite absurd, and serves nobody.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
