Because they couldn't find anyone decent who would do it for $500 million.

Ahem ... Cortez and the Aztecs? Pizarro and the Incas? Wiped out the natives and their lifestyles long before there was a United States.

Again, European.

The HTML document revealed by "view source" isn't something "behind" the web page -- it IS the web page. The State effectively made a document containing the confidential info available to everyone and is now complaining because someone looked at it. I agree with the prior commentators that this is more about politics than law.

Write at least two hours per day.