[Nowado]

Admittedly even with 5-10 accounts per employee that isn't general-purpose-small-PR-agency stuff, but on a state levels it's nothing. For reference, quick google says slightly over 1 million people in USA hold top security clearance.

[bawolff]

Bribing 500 people is easy when you can choose your targets. Bribing a large specific group of diverse people with full secrecy, is a different story.

The moment someone leaks the jig is up, and at least some of the bribed group would probably be very ideologically opposed which makes them difficult to bribe.