This 100%. However most people who hold this view seem to apply it only for adversaries of their nation, and not the intelligence activities of their own natio

This 100%. However most people who hold this view seem to apply it only for adversaries of their nation, and not the intelligence activities of their own nation. For example the selective leaks known as the Panama Papers was criticized for being screened before being leaked of implicating US officials - and for being selectively published to implicate other world leaders. Ask an American about this an Hanlon's Razor suddenly seems relevant. Really, whether to take the mental effort to understand the realpolitik implications, incentives and to pry into leaks and their sources to understand what's true, what's false, what's mischaracterized and what's missing - that decision to be careful and skeptical is immediately under the bias that nationalistic individuals hold dear: cognitive dissonance, etc.