Equation Group very clearly includes the NSA. But how do we really know what the NSA is? Given the maze of secrecy, does anyone at the NSA even know what the NSA is, in any comprehensive sense? Or who it serves?
Another surprising revelation was that need-to-know structure isn't necessarily congruent with management structure or chain of command. That is, one can report to someone who isn't authorized to know what one is doing. As I recall, the focus was on financial accountability, duplication of effort, empire building, etc. But there are deeper concerns about accountability.
