Furthermore, if only the DoD/whatever used Tor, "someone with Tor traffic going from/to them" would be a good-enough metric to locate DoD emplyees / government

Furthermore, if only the DoD/whatever used Tor, "someone with Tor traffic going from/to them" would be a good-enough metric to locate DoD emplyees / government spies / etc. The idea is, that's why Tor continued to be developed not as part of a Naval Research lab project, but rather as a civilian project.