The National Security Agency is making requests for information, but they have also been known to tell "untruths," which Mark Zuckerberg outspokenly does not like too much.

"I think the government blew it," Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, said Wednesday at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

"We take our role very seriously," he said. "It's our job to protect everyone who uses Facebook. It's our government's job to protect all of us, our freedom and the economy. They did a bad job at balancing this."

He said Facebook is pushing for more transparency about information the NSA requests because people deserve to know more about those government programs. Zuckerberg did not care for the NSA assuring people it only spied on non-American citizens because of his company's global reach.

"The morning after this started breaking, a bunch of people were asking them what they thought," Zuckerberg said. "[They said] 'don't worry, we're not spying on any Americans.' Wonderful, that's really helpful for companies trying to work with people around the world. Thanks for going out there and being clear. I think that was really bad."

In its most recent transparency report, Facebook said the government made 11,000 to 12,000 requests for some 20,000 to 21,000 user accounts. The social networking site said 79 percent of the requests produced at least "some" data.

Whether this is "spying" on American citizens or not may be in a gray area, but the NSA has not always been entirely truthful. Thanks to Edward Snowden, many people around the world and, especially in America, know that the government is doing things it has said it was not.

For example, NSA chief Keith Alexander assured people in a June 25 speech that his agency "has executed its national security responsibilities with equal and full respect for civil liberties and privacy."

In 2009, a court order from a secret court known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) confirmed this was not the case. A file declassified Tuesday said "since the earliest days" of the NSA's program to spy on phone conversations, started in 2006, the agency has continually performed inquiries without gaining the necessary court-ordered screenings designed to protect American citizen's rights to privacy.