Well they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Good intentions are certainly no excuse for allowing a system to be set up which can easily be abused to catastrophic effect and is near impossible to dismantle, even by its authors. That's particularly so for intelligence services of all people, who are supposed to apply some level of insight into risk. This looks like either a case of incompetence or malice and frankly I'm not sure which is more disturbing.