The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) says exactly what TN has been saying for three years: "The result of this effort is nothing short of a future that involves the perfection of the surveillance state" and that it "threatens the export of these tools abroad to other authoritarian regimes." Beware of motive, however, because the DNI manages and funds all 17 Intel agencies in the U.S., including the NSA, CIA and DHS.