Tor is hardly a civilian network. It is quick and dirty secure communications for intelligence agents, developed by the Naval Research Laboratory. The civilians

Tor is hardly a civilian network. It is quick and dirty secure communications for intelligence agents, developed by the Naval Research Laboratory. The civilians on tor are doing the useful job of adding routing complexity, which is probably why it was publicly released in the first place, as if it was only agents on there it would be useless for the job.