What's more secure than a country under embargo?
"I had been on the job for a while before I realized that I have no staff," he complained. "Everything the agency does had been pushed down into the componentsโฆit's all being managed several levels below me." In other words, the NSA had developed an immune system against external intervention.
https:// www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042_3.html
So the Intelligence community was essentially looking in the phonebook of the internet for CP, pretending that the problem is much less than it actually is.