No, interception and wiretapping (especially with permission of the service provider) are not the same thing as hacking a company to maintain persistent access

No, interception and wiretapping (especially with permission of the service provider) are not the same thing as hacking a company to maintain persistent access and surreptitiously using their assets to exfiltrate data. These are very different things and the distinction matters. I’m familiar with what kinds of things they do, and I don’t agree that they should be doing a lot of what they do. It’s just that rooting american assets isn’t one of those. Also, you have the wrong country for Tempora.