Two weeks after the "60 Minutes" broadcast, the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing documents obtained by Snowden, reported that the NSA had inserted backdoors

Two weeks after the "60 Minutes" broadcast, the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing documents obtained by Snowden, reported that the NSA had inserted backdoors into BIOS, doing exactly what Plunkett accused a “nation state” of doing during her interview. But how is this related to the article at hand? Unless the NSA is somehow able to introduce malicious code into Google's systems view email and meetings, what problem is this article trying to address? That Google should avoid any contact with the NSA/government?