Granted. I suspect most NSA employees put up with it because their salaries are considerably higher than they could hope to achieve in the private sector, and t

Granted. I suspect most NSA employees put up with it because their salaries are considerably higher than they could hope to achieve in the private sector, and they would rather be the spies than the ones being spied upon. Snowden, a fairly unremarkable sysadmin, was allegedly taking home compensation of around $200k pa. To be honest, even I'd probably turn a blind eye if I were being paid that much.