I would like to comment on this. My real name and also email I believe are in my profile, as well as in a couple of past comments. Incompetence is sometimes a

I would like to comment on this. My real name and also email I believe are in my profile, as well as in a couple of past comments. Incompetence is sometimes a brilliant intelligence and counterintelligence strategy. The old saying of "don't suspect malice when stupidity is possible" or whatever was a favorite saying of Aldrich Ames. And of course that is what one would say if they were doing what he did. It's also a great recruitment strategy for spies. The CIA realized by the mid 70's that hey didn't have to ask ppl to defect, or to pass secrets, often they would just say, "can you make sure that if this security concern ever gets filed, you just just make sure it gets lost, or that you are really confused and don't understand?" Incompetence happened a great deal in the Soviet Union. It mentally killed people to see it everyday. People had just given up on society and accepted a corrupt incompetent way of life. Ultimately, incompetence, even if begun as a malicious strategy, eventually inspires it in others, which is tragic.