Funny?
I would describe it as tragic and scandalous.
It is also potentially subversive because of the consequent ability it gives intelligence agencies to suborn their political masters. For an existence proof, look at the troubles that the orange man is having with his intelligence agencies.
Even worse, it is already happening.
"Five Eyes act as a "supra-national intelligence organisation that doesn't answer to the known laws of its own countries". Documents leaked by in 2013 revealed that the Five Eyes have been spying on one another's citizens and sharing the collected information with each other in order to circumvent restrictive domestic regulations on surveillance of citizens."
