Doing that would be implicitly admitting they&#x27;d made America less safe, which might lead to them having less power.<p>If I was the NSA I&#x27;d blame those sneaky commies, because that might lead to me getting more power. I&#x27;d say &quot;this Chinese attack wouldn&#x27;t have gone undetected for so long if the NSA had access to Juniper&#x27;s source code repos, and monitored on all their employees, to check for sleeper agents&quot;