U.S. Promotes Network to Foil Digital Spying
nytimes.com
nytimes.com
http://jrbaldwin.com/tidepoolswifi/
Also: "Get started on building community networks before a disaster hits and ensure that communities prone to disasters are aware of mesh technology beforehand."
It could also be a very ironic instance of
"The beuaracracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding beuracracy" - Oscar Wilde
The NSA erodes privacy so the state department promotes it so the NSA has more privacy to erode so the state department... etc etc.