*Snowden and others have also shown that other countries' intelligence agencies ...

Snowden and others have also shown that other countries' intelligence agencies will happily take over from the NSA and spy on you.

How is that sentence anything other than a non sequitur?

We're talking about NSA overreach, and attributing Regin and/or Qwerty to the MSA or the 5 eyes. Why are you fudding up the Russians and the Chinese?