Prior two Edward Snowden's whistle blowing I think you could perceive the maintainer as paranoid around leaving the project (see linked thread) however now I think you can't discount what, if any, cooperation technology companies have been providing to the NSA.
I am not sure I agree that before Snowden this could have been perceived as paranoid. As part of the discussion on the crypto list Ben Laurie brings up an important point:
"But what's the argument for _not_ mixing their probably-not-backdoored RNG with other entropy?"[1]
Does your answer to this really change that much "pre-Snowden"?
