In order to stop espionage we need to have people in power who think that espionage is a problem. Most of our political class live in a bubble where they are incapable of even envisioning that the movers and shakers in the rest of the world have radically different motivations and goals than they do. They cannot imagine the idea of, for example, starting a war to enslave a native population for economic or ideological goals so therefore no one else would either. If someone steals the designs for hi-tech weapons–so what? They would only use them in self-defense defense, right? And by allowing them to steal such secrets (or by giving it to them directly) we have shown just how wonderfully moral to the Nth power we are.

There is nothing so dangerous as being led by a confederacy of idiots who are convinced they are geniuses. Insofar as current political conditions in the US are concerned I fear that this is precisely what we have.