Theres important things missing from this summary - such as hiding that they have these capabilities, lying about parts of it, going against privacy expectation

Theres important things missing from this summary - such as hiding that they have these capabilities, lying about parts of it, going against privacy expectations set by other parts of their government. That's a very blatant double standard - privacy for them, but not for us. Their culture as indicated by their actions (plus wording in training materials) is that they don't care about the rights of the people which the people believe they have, and are willing to lie to abuse the public's privacy. Its familiar, maybe from the plot of a bad action movie where the spy agency has gone rogue?