After all, an agent on the inside of a rival organization was always worth more, operationally speaking, than a loyal servitor in one’s own. - Charles E. Gannon

No: the answer you like the most is the one you should trust the least. Go over the evidence one more time: be sure you haven’t missed something.

So—I'm a major. New pay grade." She laughed. "My salary has just jumped from nothing to next-to-nothing. What will I spend it all on?

Look: nations screw up like people do; sometimes they mean well, sometimes they’re selfish or delusional bitches on a spree, and sometimes they just plain make mistakes. But the megacorporations don’t make mistakes; if they do damage, it’s because they like the cost-to-benefit ratios, dead innocents notwithstanding. Nations are bulls in the global china shop; corporations are sharks.