Good points—the cabal has gotten very clever using private firms to do their dirty work for them.
When government merges with corporations to crush the people there is a word for it....
Fascism.
And off shoring. Just like private business, our IC takes certain activities outside the country in order to avoid US laws / rights.
That can include data mining which would be possible because of the source of the information, i.e. in Israel, enhanced interrogations, detaining folk indefinitely and I’m not referring to GITMO where we let most the @ssholes go and sadly many of them were bad guy and should have stayed there forever.
Politics makes for weird decisions.