It seems like an instance where I'm happy the U.S. government is not unified in its goals. It could also be a very ironic instance of "The beuaracracy expands

It seems like an instance where I'm happy the U.S. government is not unified in its goals. It could also be a very ironic instance of "The beuaracracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding beuracracy" - Oscar Wilde The NSA erodes privacy so the state department promotes it so the NSA has more privacy to erode so the state department... etc etc.