Are you suggesting that certain power centres are deliberately turning a blind eye to potential terrorist intelligence in order to maintain the &quot;state of tension&quot;, as long as that threat is not directly affecting their own citizens and home country?<p>I.e. the NSA deliberately withholding intelligence from the French in order to bring the French government into the &quot; ignore a basic right to privacy and liberty, we need you to support our bulk surveillance hard-line &quot;?<p>That would be pretty callous and downright Machiavellian.