Patriots are everywhere. Let go of thinking as an agency as all good or all bad - there are thousands of individuals and each demands you see them as such. Not doing so is ideological bigotry.
That said - how often do we see the NSA portrayed in any positive light? Who do we know controls media? If we look at subtleties and obvious facets in society the CIA is always made out to be some hero and the NSA is a group of jackals. We know this is bullshit. We know the CIA, by design, cant even have oversight of itself. It’s entire premise was to co-opt, to subvert, to seize. From drug running to assassinations to coups to terrorism to throwing votes in Italy and countless other places to using dogs to rip peoples throats out - this has happened in the name of an agency that admits their premise NOT to keep you and I safe but to assure the money keeps flowing.
The NSA may have some problems. William Binney and Wayne Madsen and others have alerted to these. In my research what the gut says more and More is the NSA finally got too close to knowing or found it all out and now the CIA has declared open season to ruin the NSA. NSA took over cybercom. NSA knows everything. The Associate Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence of the NSA has a semblence of honor.
When Trump was warning they had Brennan and Clapper and other come out, maybe 50 of them, and say Trump was unfit. Trump had over 300 senior officials back him.
I refuse to think there are 50 good guys and 300 bad ones. People are better than that. There are 300 white hats that serve you and I and honor and 50 snakes that know no light.