If someone pressures (with just words and no threats) you into shooting another person, do you not at least partly hold some of the blame yourself?
Not sure what consequences NSA told NIST would happen if they said no, when they pressured them, but from the look of things (https://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/06/V...) it seems that NSA just asked NIST nicely to make Dual_EC_DRBG a FIPS even as it was weak, and NIST accepted that.
You say this like NIST was an accomplice (and not also a victim).