Given that they knew about the distributed nature of cloud computing and computer networks it strikes me as unreasonable to claim they honestly did expect to ca

Given that they knew about the distributed nature of cloud computing and computer networks it strikes me as unreasonable to claim they honestly did expect to capture domestic traffic. Furthermore, by the looks of it, they intentionally avoided knowledge of whether traffic was foreign or domestic. It certainly looks like they intended to gain access to information they weren't allow to knowingly intercept. Finally, you're assuming they didn't simply spy domestically - and I'm not so sure that's true. They certainly tried to make it very hard for anyone to find out, and there's no indication that any meaningful oversight or review will be permitted. But at the end of the day there's just the general insanity of it all - the harm to american interests by trying to do to others what would be domestically illegal, and on a large scale - that's just crazy. The status quo seems to be entirely in our favor, and then some rogue agencys seem to be doing their utmost to upset it. What were they thinking?