> Silicon Valley itself was built on DoD money.

Yes and the result wasn't Intel and Cisco de facto owned by DoD/IC. Your need for two different things to be the same is confusing, but no doubt central to your worldview.

> Numerous backdoors in Cisco equipment and official government documents that the NSA used Cisco for spying operations

Did the US gov order them be put there? Did they even have to make the order, as all major tech networking companies are arms of state intel anyways? No?

Well then what are you talking about?