So thanks, but no thanks.
To be fair, the number of people who had direct access to the NSA/CIA exploit archives was probably in the hundreds. TS information is usually compartmentalized so only the people who need to access it can (known as TS-SCI).
Still bad that they have that many who can access it, but not in the millions.
"As of last October, nearly five million people held government security clearances. Of that, 1.4 million held top-secret clearances. More than a third of those with top-secret clearances are contractors, which would appear to include Mr. Snowden." https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323495604578535...
Now we can get into semantics until the cows come home but even tens of thousands of people are way too many. Imagine 1+ million people.
Its not like they go to the "Top Secret File Share" and have access to everything that is Top Secret across the government.
And let's not forget how the FBI allowed the police to use stingrays illegally and taught them how to hide them from judges in various ways, including claiming the tools were under NDA and they couldn't tell judges about it. Or when they absolutely had to tell the judges about it, they'd prefer to drop the cases (against drug lords, child pornographers, murderers, etc) so as to not reveal the use of the tools.
And on and on it goes like this.
Top Secret clearance && millions of people?
unlikely. maybe some level of clearance && millions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/06/12...