Not spot-on — reads like an awful lot of groundless speculation about internal politics within the NSA. They had a goal (get a backdoor into a NIST/FIPS-approved standard) and accomplished it. Look at the list of vendors (linked from the other answer to this question) who have had their Dual_EC_DRBG implementation certified by NIST — lots of hardware, software, & networking companies are listed. It seems likely that at least some of those vendors have shipped products that use Dual_EC_DRBG for "secure" communications purposes. What's surprising about that?