To be fair, there are people out there who are pushing for surveillance and war because it is financially beneficial (see: the major rise in weapons company&#x27;s stock prices since the attack). You have examples of intelligence higher-ups who leave govt work and go on to open private security consultancies where they are paid enormous sums; they reap quite a windfall for their roll in pushing surveillance. They may not be cartoon villains but its hard to argue they are trying to do whats right for the country, and coincidentally it also will make them fabulously wealthy.