If they weren't going full cointelpro on people who are skeptical then I'm sure there would be plenty of people who support their missions... It should be common sense that irrational responses only promote further irrationality.
The biggest threat to America right now is the gathering of data on individuals. This data has a life of it's own and can and will be used against us where there is money or political gain to be made.
Spying programs are the swiss knife for intelligence.
I was renting my spying softwares to some governments