Sure, it was sent from a stolen laptop in a Starbucks via a rooted AWS box and a spam botnet.

In other words, the state surveillance in the US is only going to be effective at tracking and suppressing dissent, not at fighting actual crime.

I thought that was obvious.

The greatest utility of these programs though isn't in suppressing dissent or busting crime or terrorism. It's in routing pork to government IT contractors.

Given the revelations by the person who hacked Gamma, they aren't omniscient

I'm sure they are on it, but Tor isn't a secret anymore, it is posible to obfuscate the source pretty well if you know what you are doing.