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You can see at least the first half of any Tor circuit, though, and more-often-than-not I get mostly nodes with IPs from European countries. Are those US-Government-owned nodes, that just happen to be in Europe?

Physical location is not really relevant to who owns a node.

Most countries allow anyone to setup a company and operate servers. Any government organization with a small amount of resources can setup a front company and turn on a server.

That would be insanely easy for the US government to set up.

I also wish you could remember, as my memory is something along the lines of they ran a few nodes on on EC2 for like a few weeks.

I'll try to find a source when I'm off mobile.

That doesn't matter unless they operated all nodes in the routing chain.

Operating the entry and exit on a circuit is almost as bad as operating the entry, middle, and exit.