As far as the gov’t is concerned, when it’s then doing it, it’s ‘for our own good’. when it’s another gov’t doing it, it’s a national security risk.

Which shouldn’t be too big of a surprise I guess, especially since ‘national security risk’ almost always means ‘threat to gov’t security in practice’.

That won’t change unless there is some kind of disaster that makes it untenable. I mean, just look at Nuclear proliferation for a really clear example.