I'm misunderstood quite often too, probably due to my wording of things, so I feel for you that this post got taken the way it has. I knew what you meant.
You're saying the Spygate thing is wider reaching; It actively affected a lot more people, even if the effects weren't anything like as comparable.
The fact that it's been peddled in the media to the point people can even draw some kind of comparison between the two speaks volumes, to me at least.