That's a fair point, but since we are all pissed off at our governments for taking liberties with our well-intentioned permission to conduct espionage on behalf

That's a fair point, but since we are all pissed off at our governments for taking liberties with our well-intentioned permission to conduct espionage on behalf of our well-being, your are extending more benefit-of-the-doubt than a lot of us are. That's probably to your credit. But I am wary that the 'secret' stuff has a lot of implications that are only on the edge of what we would think of as trade agreement- intel sharing and such. It could, I suppose, be a positive: everybody come clean about the past(keep that stuff a secret) and then have fair and reasonable limitations going forward. There was a day when I thought like that... :)