Extensive documentation does not exist. It's all conjecture and speculation. We know the NSA spies on foreigners, we know they have relationships with tech com

Extensive documentation does not exist. It's all conjecture and speculation. We know the NSA spies on foreigners, we know they have relationships with tech companies to make that spying easier and therefore have access to all that information. We don't the extent of domestic use. We know they collect phone metadata. We know they have infiltrated software abroad, they deny having done it domestically. There's just a whole lot we don't know. Here's something I do know: the government is not infallible. In fact, just the opposite. Sure Snowden revealed a lot about the NSA spying programs, but he also revealed another salient fact: their background check process was a joke. Like every other government agency they display an incredible degree of incompetence. Sleeper agents at Apple inserting bugs into code in order to bypass security checks as part of some grand scheme to infiltrate the communications of millions of Americans... it's not even a good idea on the face of it, but even if they tried to pull this off they'd screw it up somewhere along the way. Human beings make mistakes. You guys are giving way too much credit to the NSA.