Really good govt secrecy from the courts can hide as much incompetence as cool tech.
Incompetence is one way of looking at it.
I was driving a cab many years ago and a lady was in the cab with a kid about 5 or 10 years old. The kid said to his mother something like "mom you have a booger in your eye", and the mother started beating the kid. Not just mild hitting, she was pounding him and he was screaming. I didn't know whether to pull over and break it up,
I did nothing.
I don't know much about that kid now. He would be in his 30s. I do know pretty surely he supports the NSA and any other agency without question. Some people are taught one direction, some another.
Incompetence might not be the best word.
WTF?
You let the kid get beaten up?
And what makes you so sure the kid supports the NSA now?
Because the NSA can stop bad mothers beating up their kids because she has a booger in her eye?
Apart from that, what makes you think that Bitcoin is not an NSA project to begin with?