You are willfully missing the point. The NSA was the core of the rebellion against the Deep State. Snowden was assigned the job to destroy or weaken the rebellion.
Q says they snuck up on the Cabal and in a way they did. But obviously the Cabal knew some group was circling them. They perhaps way underestimated our lethality.
We can agree we are being illegally spied onโฆ.but that was in place already. Why do you think the CIA went to the trouble of creating their own NSA basically? They wanted raw intel without it going through the NSA desks.
Move and counter move.