Yes, and the corollary to that any foreign power that wants to spy on Americans need only focus on a single point of failure... our own security apparatus. It w

Yes, and the corollary to that any foreign power that wants to spy on Americans need only focus on a single point of failure... our own security apparatus. It would be much more difficult to develop the data collection, storage, and management of that data on their own. We have paid to do it to our selves. Now maybe there are counter espionage methods developed... but the idea that our geopolitical competitors don't have a single other mole as a contractor with Snowden's level of access is no longer (and frankly never was) credible. You could probably make a similar argument about our advertising apparatus. Never develop a tool/weapon you can't afford to be used against you, because in the long term it will.