The Qunari do have a reason to believe that... which is why their displeasure was mentioned.
And Bull didn't prove much, we did. The Inquisitor gives the order, and Bull simply carries it out. That doesn't really mean he's in the clear regarding re-assessment and/or re-education (he even tells Varric that he is "not a friend of the alliance")
Yep, that's definitely how the Qunari work.
Intel and sabotage are the duties of "Dangerous Questions", Iron Bull's branch, and the same branch that any covert operatives working outside Paar Vollen would be assigned to.
No, the Qunari have never been presented as that. They have always been about order and heavily-centralized authority. Which means logs, reports, manifests, rosters etc. not "Hey, can I borrow a bunch of troops and mages for... stuff" "Sure thing bro". The alternative you are presenting makes them little better than a collection of feudal lords, which would also make any one perspective of what the Qun "is" and its demands wholly suspect and irrelevant.
As it is, these agents and laborers from other branches have their own people to report to, and the Viddasala is not going to be able to hide her plans from everyone, especially in the presence of doubters.
As for your comparison to the Inquisition, it is a paramilitary force not beholden to any governing body... which would actually be the antithesis of what the Qunari claim to practice.
And "bas hissrad" would just mean "thing liar", if you want to go by a literal translation. But then, why not just say "hissrad" in that case? "Bas saarebas", as the Arvaarad might call Hawke in DA2, would mean "thing dangerous thing" translated literally.
But... you don't translate one language into another literally, not in the real world and not in Dragon Age. We already know Bas is used as both a pejorative and as a term referring to those who live outside the Qun. Thus, "bas saarebas" meaning "unbound mage", "enemy mage", "unenlightened mage" etc. depending on context, and the same goes for "bas hissrad".
Yes, hissrad is Iron Bull's designation, but Iron Bull is not the only hissrad, just as Sten was not the only sten.
That was before the mission, and it was because Hissrad readily confessed to being a spy to the Inquisition. It had nothing to do with prior actions. Then, after the mission is completed successfully, the Qunari have every reason to trust him.
Bull proved what he needed to as far as the Qunari are concerned. Gatt would be the one giving them the report, and Gatt already strongly believed that Hissrad would never become Tal-Vashoth. And the Inquisitor didn't give the order, he just said we need to hold the hill at all cost. Bull merely agreed, and if you try to take any of the blame, he tells you not to and to just let him have this one. Also, if the Inquisitor had said nothing, Bull still would have let the Chargers die. We know this because Bull can have the Chargers in Trespasser, yet still obey Viddasala if his personal quest was not done. See, Bull only signals the retreat if he knows there's somewhere else for him to go after leaving the Qun. If he sees no other place, he'll stick with the Qun. Again, poor writing on the part of those who made Trespasser, but so it goes.
Not a friend of the alliance does not mean he's not a friend of the Qun, and it does not mean he needs reeducation. You are assuming he gets reeducated simply because he submitted himself to it in the past. But everything Bull says on the subject post sacrifice of the Chargers indicates that he doesn't need reeducation. He's ready to be Qunari.
No, that is how the Qunari work. Hissrad fulfilled his duty to the Qun. When Gatt said he knows how hard it was to sacrifice the Chargers, Hissrad said, "Doesn't matter. The Qun demanded it." So no, the Qunari have no reason to put Hissrad through reeducation when he clearly showed his loyalty to the Qun.
But Dragon's Breath wasn't sabotage. It was assault. It was destroying something "dangerous". Viddasala was out to destroy the elvhen magics, as well as those who allowed it to go unchecked by not dissolving the Inquisition. So that does fall under her branch. And again, the main point is that Hissrad was not part of her operation. Had he been, Viddasala would have known that the Inquisitor was not helping the agent of Fen'Harel. As for intel, every branch has a division for that, even the Antaam, which has the Baaresad, which Sten was a part of. He was sent to answer the question, "What is the blight?" Similarly, Viddasala had her own "magic destroyers" whose jobs were to gather information about how to best destroy those who harbor the elvhen magics.
Okay, and we also saw with the gatekeeper's log that he requested the locations of artifacts from one of the Viddasala's researchers, and each time he was given a reply that was more vague, until finally he requested a murder knife from his sten. So, if Viddasala was giving reports that were false, but still pleasing to read, then her superiors would continue to trust her. Just like they continued to trust Hissrad after he proved himself on the Storm Coast.
Of course the Qun is dysfunctional. This is a society that won't let a warrior back in without his sword. But this has always been the case. And as long as Viddasala can convince the Qunari she commands to keep believing in her directive, then she's fine. The turning point is when Josephine contacted the Triumvirate. That's when things started falling apart for Viddasala. She intercepted the return letter, and crumpled it up. And isn't it funny that this was the point when she got desperate enough to call on Hissrad? Before this she was trying to kill him. And the letter also states that Bull tried to contact his superiors to no avail. Which shows that she was actively intercepting Bull's letters to his division's leader so they wouldn't find out. Don't doubt me on this one Baconer, I watch Scooby-Doo. 
Not if they were assigned to Viddasala. In that case they would report to her until the mission was complete, and she would write whatever she wished in her reports to the Ariqun. As for keeping everyone in line, that would be a simple matter of assigning certain people to certain tasks. She had the Antaam fight the elven spirits, and she told them the Inquisition was working with these spirits and the agent of Fen'Harel. Therefore, they were also instructed to station themselves in the ruin near the eluvian near the Winter Palace (there is a note somewhere talking about a secret location outside Halamshiral). Then, her own agents which she had direct command over were the ones mining the lyrium and feeding it to Saarebas. Jerrik was part of this crew, but he was a doubter, like some others. He knew Viddasala was acting outside the Qun. As for the Saarebas, part of her role is to study magic so she can stop it. She probably told the Ariqun that she needed some Saarebas in order to study them. And since the Saarebas are blindly loyal for the most part, she could easily manipulate them. And it isn't like they can speak out against her. Those in the library were mostly hers, but some Antaam. Again, fighting spirits (we find Qunari who died with horrified expressions). Then some Antaam defending the Darvaarad, thinking that the people attacking were just agents of Fen'Harel. And those at the final ruin were hers and some Antaam under the same deception, though their main mission was to attack the agent of Fen'Harel.
I would also like to point out that some of the Ben-Hassrath agents who attacked with one-handed swords were in fact female. It is a violation of the Qun for those females to fight as warriors. I'm not talking about the dual-dagger assassins. I'm referring to sword wielding warriors.
I don't see what governing bodies have to do with anything. Ferelden and Orlais had governing bodies, but they were still infiltrated both by Venatori and Viddasala. The Inquisition had a chain of command, but they were still deceived, and the Inquisition was a small organization. The Qunari are a massive organization with three different branches and various divisions, often ruled by a single person at each step. If one of those leaders goes outside the Qun, who is there to correct it but one person over them? In that case it's a simple matter to lie to that one person. Which I believe is what Viddasala did, and I think the evidence indicates this.
In the epilogue it states that no one knows what debates were held in Par Vollen over the matter, but there was at least some debate. It was likely something the leaders in the Triumvirate argued about regarding oversight of lower ranking officers and how one agent's actions almost cost them the Alliance and provoked full scale war with the south at a time when they aren't ready for it.
Yes, that's what it means, though grammar would probably have it as "lying thing". To the Qunari, "thing" means someone outside the Qun. So the author of the letter was basically calling Hissrad a thing outside the Qun. Why? The Ariqun knows Hissrad is loyal. This author wanted him dead. Hmmm.
Yes, it would mean "thing, dangerous thing". Or grammatically, "dangerous thing outside the qun". A word can mean different things. This is common of every language. It depends when and how it is used. A Japanese word for example can take on a totally new meaning if a certain word comes before it, or if it's used at the end of a sentence instead of at the start.
Okay, so you admit that bas is used as a pejorative or to those outside the Qun. So either way, it was used against Hissrad, who was not bas at all. Do the words unbound, enemy, or unenlightened describe anything Hissrad was to the Qun? No. Do they describe what he was to a rogue agent acting outside the Qun? Yes.
Okay then. What other "Hissrad" would this letter be referring to? And why would this Hissrad be lumped in with the agents of Fen'Harel? And if it wasn't Bull, but rather a true enemy, then why was it crossed out?
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