Can I call up the NSA and obtain a license for say... XKeyScore? Probably not... so this is egregious.

Not everything developed by the government is automatically supposed to be available to the public so I guess I don't understand your point.

The point is how is it acceptable that a previously-public-servant can have insider knowledge about "secret" government patents and he can obtain a license to use the technology but I cannot? That's absurd and an abuse of power and privilege.

Did it say he was going to use secret patents?

Or just that he was going to use NSA patents?

Because the NSA maintains a list of patented technologies that they offer to the public on various terms: http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/tech_transfers/nsa_techno...

Even if he uses knowledge, methods, practices, routines, guidelines, etc from his time serving at the NSA -- I would expect a NDA to prevent him from using any of that knowledge -- my company made me sign one, and so do most.