> Or that they are incompetent enough, to not secure their own back doors and networks, and allowed the FBI, NSA, and other American government organizations, the ability to counter-hack them, and monitor all their internal communications.

Wait.. did I miss something in the article? The closest thing to that, I remember happening, had the roles reversed [0], and should be an important lesson about not underestimating the opposition.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communicati...