Sway the public against undirected mass domestic surveillance, maybe. Conveniently, all the NSA's targets would then be foreign and subject to almost no review.

Sway the public against undirected mass domestic surveillance, maybe. Conveniently, all the NSA's targets would then be foreign and subject to almost no review. So you have to worry both about the NSA and any local agencies. The reality, if you are worried about US/UK/FR/DE/RU/CN intelligence, don't use the cloud.