[doctorwho42]

Advanced knowledge of the inner workings of governmental oversight, government funding, and the ability to understand what they are doing is illegal and dangerous.... Enough to know that whatever they have been promised is not worth the unintended consequences of their actions.

[pizzafeelsright]

Pause any spending $X on a Foreign Nation is not aligned with making America Gooder.

The better question is why hasn't anyone done this before?