It's just that... you know... literally no one wanted to talk about how a US military department was using capabilities traditionally described as acts of war to subvert US infrastructure and analyze the behaviors of US citizens. There were terrorists!
Just like they didn't want to talk about it in the 90s, when the US government tried to claim that encryption was a regulated government technology and while US citizens are technically entitled to munitions, something something 2nd amendment, if you export anything more than 44 bits, you're in serious trouble.
