Interesting idea. Maybe we're just assuming that people who work for the NSA are 1) very competent and 2) really engaged in their work. Thinking about it I can

Interesting idea. Maybe we're just assuming that people who work for the NSA are 1) very competent and 2) really engaged in their work. Thinking about it I can imagine that even though they collect a lot of 'stuff' that not many people who work for the NSA (or some other BS organisation) are really motivated to do anything with that information. They are mostly, just like any other corporate environment, people who need to pay their mortgage and what to go home at 5pm.