A Lot More Money

If the NSA is a state-sponsored yet privatized hacker and snooper program and it spends the most money possible because that is one of its goals, and it had some really really good ideas that it was thinking about forming a committee to think about those ideas some more but somebody's big mouth wrecked everything and interrupted its thought patterns, yes the NSA will continue hacking and snooping, only for a lot more money.