It’s idiotic but at the same time 270k isn’t that much money to a government

I think that speaks to my point about competence

A competent state department wouldn’t send in SEAL Team Six into a sovereign country they are not at war with.

He was saved by a bible.com tab

That’s not what they do according to their own ethics statement

https://www.theverge.com/ethics-statement

They could offload the processing to a device that does. They currently do this for personal requests. Putting 8 gigabytes of RAM in a smart speaker is a bit silly.