Okay then, the NSA is incompetent/untrustworthy, and the gov't is incompetent/derelict in its oversight duty. I'm going to consider this possibility to be less

Okay then, the NSA is incompetent/untrustworthy, and the gov't is incompetent/derelict in its oversight duty. I'm going to consider this possibility to be less likely, unless the President makes decisive corrective action. If the President can't denounce/correct such a failure, then he owns it.