The problem of well funded govts flooding Tor exit node pool with their own nodes and globally inspecting traffic is a real issue that I think the current design of Tor is not equipped to circumvent. This can happen even if Tor hadn't received any funding from any govt. Any darknet has to be hot target for govt infiltration and subversion and Tor is not an exception. If you're planning to do something highly illegal, think if you need to do it at all. Do not assume a few hops through a few machines means you'll forever be out of reach of concerted attempts at finding you.
It looks like the kind of cloths snake-oil security companies would use to dress-up their terrorist-looking cyber-criminal in presentations to law enforcement or other government agencies.
The US has been involved in ‘election meddling’ and regime change forever, and building tools to help activists destabilize governments is part of that.
That they also happen to destabilize American institutions is an unintended side effect.
Made me LOL.
The US government wants you to be able to oppose the governments of countries X, Y and Z. A long list. So it pays for Tor. Other branches of the same government want to spy on you, in much the same way as the governments of X, Y and Z.
