Dodgy is as dodgy does, and failing governments are always reduced to attempting desperate measures
That’s a lot of dirty money being laundered through those operands ... with the supply of intelligence services covered in Lot 5 funding of sure certain specific interest to a chosen few who be not as many as it may be thought wise to engage and provide with filthy lucre/pretty fiat paper.
But what else can they realistically do to have that and those who can help them, help them?
It is though a very good simple and quite effective plan which has always appeared to work extremely well in the past, so why shouldn’t the present try it again for command and control of the future with its host of 0days to contend with and sate magnificently.