Oh, but I sorta agree with everything Reg, but as a citizen of a country with some decent communication infrastructure hubs, who pretty much let the US intelligence have free access to these wires since the Clinton administration, it worries me when the US intelligence system becomes corrupt and fragmented...

Spying is a fact of the world, but diplomacy ceases to work when nothing is secret to one party; - "who watches the watchers" as the adage goes ;-)

If the information discrepancy between the parties involved becomes to big, then they risk pushing beyond the acceptable, I think. It scares the shit out me how little it takes for a ruler of a country to start acting irrationally, as we have clearly seen. 

Also Nance should of course do what he can to inform as many as possible, but I hear very few solutions from him.