content: Absolutely. Actually Snowden is what made me really think about this this. We got lucky that he was a "good guy." People working at these agencies are only human and humans are not entirely predictable. Imagine if instead of trying to use his position and access for the greater good of society that he instead decided to use his position to collect as much private information on everybody as he could and then sold it to the highest bidder, or all the bidders for that matter.