Hypocrisy is hand and glove with spying regardless of who is doing it. We do it to them and they do it to us, friends and enemies. You can wax on about the morality, but the idea is not to get caught. Just because we may be guilty of the same thing doesn't mean that we are compelled to let them do it to us. Our perceived excesses are a different issue.

As for their stupidity, I try to never underestimate our ability to sometimes come off as keystone cops but it is also possible that we don't know the whole story. Feeding the enemy bogus info is not a new idea. We did it often in the Reagan years and we did it well.

It might be just as you say, but there may be a reasonable explanation for what and why the thing has been handled as it has been. Since it involves national security we will never know. :)