That sounds grossly unethical. While the US somehow defends itself from being sold to other countries first (which it still might be), it probably also acquires them to attack/spy on its own citizens as there's been precedents about this, and no indication of policy change to stop it.
They do entertaining things as long as you are comfortably more than ten feet from the end where freedom is expelled at supersonic speeds though, like, from buying Titanium sheets from communists to build the fastest airplanes to spy communists, to letting own psycos spike unsuspecting grad school elites to experimentally manufacture terrorists
> it probably also acquires them to attack/spy on its own citizens
Or possibly, "to spy on foreign nationals and to share with FVEY partners - who'll do the spying on US citizens, because doing it themselves would be illegal"... :sigh: