She well understands that being a member of Five Eyes is of huge value to UK industry, as the point of dragnet surveillance is using competitor nations' secrets for economic advantage, not for fighting terrorism.
These people aren't stupid.
These people aren't stupid.
The ability to think rationally is tightly coupled to the ability to rationalize so smart people aren't actually less likely to participate in collective madness.
"These people have selfish reasons for what they're doing" is different from "These people aren't stupid."
Source / examples? Seems like a rather extraordinary claim.
http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/30/news/mn-16631
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/feb/24/news/mn-2072
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/apr/30/airbus-coul...
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/section/3
> [GCHQ shall] monitor or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other emissions and any equipment producing such emissions and to obtain and provide information derived from or related to such emissions or equipment and from encrypted material; [... said functions] shall be exercisable [...] in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom in relation to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands
There's very similar language for SIS.