Noted Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg thinks that the United States government dug its own grave in the wake of this year’s NSA spying controversy. According to a report from PC Magazine, Zuckerberg made a number of comments on Wednesday criticizing the government for poor transparency and gross invasion of privacy, all in the supposed name of fighting a war on terrorism. Zuckerberg’s musings came in the middle of his talk at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.

Zuckerberg claimed that the government had a responsibility to balance protection and the freedoms of its citizens – a balance the NSA steamrolled during the height of the PRISM surveillance program. Worse, Zuckerberg thinks that the government’s initial comments to the public – which came after someone leaked insider information about PRISM to a number of high-profile United States news outlets – were made rashly in an attempt to lessen public outrage and improve the NSA image among U.S. citizens, but actually ended up doing more harm then good.

The comment Zuckerberg is referring to – the government’s claims that they were not, in fact, spying on the American people, but pursuing terror threats globally – did nothing to satisfy or reassure Americans, but caused people around the world to pay attention and get angry as well. Zuckerberg believes the fallout among foreign constituents likely hurt Facebook and the other global internet corporations that were involved in the case.

“It was like, ‘oh, wonderful, that’s really helpful to companies who are trying to serve people around the world, and really going to inspire confidence in American Internet companies,'” Zuckerberg quipped. “It’s like, ‘thanks for going out there and being clear about what you were doing.'”

Zuckerberg and Facebook have been unapologetic in urging the government to reveal more information about PRISM and to adopt a policy of greater transparency ever since the leak. The social media company hasn’t been alone in that effort: companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have also asked the government for permission to publish information about user information inquiries made by the government.

While the NSA and the other government entities involved in PRISM have yet to take Zuckerberg’s advice and offer complete transparency, the government has given Facebook and other internet companies the go-ahead to publish certain statistics about governmental information requests. Facebook’s first transparency report, which published only last week, showed that the United States government had made a sweeping 12,000 user data requests in the first six months of 2013.

The report also showed requests made by other countries and governments, but needless to say, the United States topped the list by a landslide.