>Is it really so hard to believe that there are elected officials in our gov who are enriching themselves at the expense of our Country [NAT SEC]?
No. But it's becoming difficult to believe there is a route to prosecutability.
The only things Q could realistically be expecting us to find are string literals and docstrings. If he's expecting us to find things like intentional accidental buffer-overflows (backdoors) in network code then he over-estimates our abilities.