Re: "Deluded"? How about "greedy" or "preadatory" or flat out "confidence trickster" ?
Admit it, you were thinking about Amber Rudd and encryption, weren't you?
Apparently it must be technically possible to both break encryption for the spooks AND keep it secure so internet commerce doesn't all fall over. Like having a lock everybody has a key to. It's locked but not very secure.