[elmo2you]

> They actively participated. And that, in my opinion, makes them a criminal enterprise.

Maybe not within a US context, for arguable the US government gave them a mandate for this deception. But within an international context they should probably be held accountable and barred from doing business abroad (as they are essentially an agent/extension of a US intel agency).

Never going to happen, of course. Not with how that whole industry operates. But that only shows how little the whole lot of them and their industry should not be trusted in the first place.