Not sure about that analogy. Here, I think, documented favor-trading for the ultimate goal to advance each concern's respective interests(namely profit and power/control), and arguably, as a consequence to the great detriment of society involves in this case a moral hazard and implies evil.
Hey guys....these tools were made to look OUT, at the foreign bad guys.
That is the constraint of the charter for those agencies.
That this administration decided to point them inward is a function of abusing the extentions of the Patriot Act, to track foreign bad guys internally.
The abuse is this administrations focus on Constitution loving, American Conservatives.
NOT the folks who designed the tools!