well crap I just wrote a response lecturing you on the Five Eyes collusion before reading the last two lines of your post. :P There exists a kind of sufficient

well crap I just wrote a response lecturing you on the Five Eyes collusion before reading the last two lines of your post. :P There exists a kind of sufficiently advanced stupidity that it can only be constructed by really smart people. People who are smart enough to rationalize doing something which is transparently wrong.