"a bit"? They have run major projects, spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, with the sole purpose of wholesale domestic espionage on the citizens of the USA. I'd post a reference, but jeez, I don't even need to, we all already know the details. It is currently one of their top 5 missions FFS. The only reason they exists is that we as citizens have to recourse channels, and not enough spine to physically remove those parasites.