It's about who's your threat. The us government probably like having an American company (Intel) that distributes an attack vector. But they probably don't like being distributed one.
Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat...
It's like phone lines, Intel agencies loved being able to arbitrarily tap lines, at least until they started having their own lines tapped as well.
If I were China or Russia I'd have stockpiled a couple bugs in these backdoors and I'd be waiting to cause major economic disruption to the US govt with their own systems... so then it's just a game of who can knock out the other's comms first (which is as I understand it doctrine generally speaking in conflict, but)
> Except the irony is it's baked into their systems as well, so you distribute your own national security threat...
From the article posted by OP
>sets the 'High Assurance Program' bit, an ME 'kill switch' that the US government reportedly[11] had incorporated for PCs used in sensitive applications[12][13];
[11] links to a dead website, but it makes you understand the US called dibs on disabling it
