The most obvious answer seems to be the most likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor "Never attribute t

The most obvious answer seems to be the most likely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." To that I would add two more possibilities: - Sabotage by employees motivated by a desire to prevent the NSA from having this sort of power. - More likely: Sabotage by contractors who get paid to build it twice. Due to the very specific nature of this sort of contract, the NSA probably sidestepped the usual rules around procurement and instead 'single sourced' the work here.