Something has gone wrong here, the contractors for the intelligence community were not thinking properly. This could have been avoided had there been more fake

Something has gone wrong here, the contractors for the intelligence community were not thinking properly. This could have been avoided had there been more fake terror plots 'foiled' by the hard efforts of the snitches. The rationale for the mass surveillance could have been more credible had that happened. As it is nobody really believes they spy on us to catch the terrorists, paedophiles and drug kingpins. Perhaps greed got in the way too. Had the intelligence community contractors outsourced some of their work to the 'normal' internet companies and not seen them as 'enemy' then it would have been harder for them to complain about what has been going on. They could have co-opted Microsoft to build their tools, got Google to build their data centres, helped out Yahoo and bought a few more Apple boxes, making Silicon Valley dependent on them for a large chunk of their revenue stream. They would then have towed the line that bit better, portraying themselves as good patriots for helping the government win The War Against Terror. As it is we now have two types of tech mega-corp, those wanting the surveillance state and those that don't want it. Had greed not gotten the better of the likes of Lockheed Martin this could have been avoided. This is a sad day for big brother.