[mtgx]

Don't you think at least some of those programs will eventually be pushed to the police? It's already happening in the UK where the police's cyber units now have almost the same hacking and surveillance (legal) powers as the GCHQ. Obama signed a new policy just days before he left the office to allow the NSA to share information with 17 other agencies. And that includes the DHS with its "fusion centers," where it shares data with the police.

And let's not forget how the FBI allowed the police to use stingrays illegally and taught them how to hide them from judges in various ways, including claiming the tools were under NDA and they couldn't tell judges about it. Or when they absolutely had to tell the judges about it, they'd prefer to drop the cases (against drug lords, child pornographers, murderers, etc) so as to not reveal the use of the tools.

And on and on it goes like this.