Corrupt or stupid?

Matt Hancock seems to have used a gmail account for a fairly large amount of government business¹:

The minutes record that David Williams, the department’s second permanent secretary, had warned about Hancock’s conduct, saying that he 'only' deals with his private office 'via Gmail account'. He stated that 'the SOS [secretary of state] does not have a DHSC inbox' [from the above article, indirectly via The Guardian].

This was presumably so there were no government records of his corrupt dealings which could incriminate him. But gmail is run by a company based in the US: if the US government wanted access to his email, they could almost certainly have it. That means the US government now has access to records of Hancock's corrupt dealings. Which is probably not the best idea, right?

The only good thing about Matt Hancock is that you are never forced to choose between corruption and stupidity: it's both, it's always both².