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IOf you think we dont have massive secret bleeding edge tech projects still active today... i mean all I can say is I can tell you from personal experience as a person who has had top level clearance and worked on many govt projects... yes there are plenty such projects and not one of them is known to the public... obviously i wont say what they are (id wind up in jail)... but I can say such things exist.
@freemo @SecurityWriter Tell me you don’t know that people with clearance are prohibited by law from revealing that they have clearance without telling me that.
Absolutely incorrect. I have had clearance and can tell you it is perfectly legal to mention you have had or have clearance. In fact when looking for work it is usually the first thing a job that needs clearance will ask, if you had or have had clearance.
@freemo @SecurityWriter I think the other big point here is that while small-scale conspiracies can, and absolutely do, exist (otherwise there would be no point in having clearance levels), the idea of a mass-scale conspiracy does seem ridiculous. You just can't keep a lid on anything that big for that long, and the frequency of leaks of these sorts of things is evidence of that.
So, secret weapons programs? Sure, totally.
Secret deep-state with tendrils across the government? Silly nonsense.