How One Man Conned the Beltway
The billion-dollar “Black Budget” demands secrecy. That made it a perfect target.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/garrison-courtney-spies-contracts.html
Excellent example to be followed by others avidly pursuing secrets, leaks, whispers, gems, with tools of secrecy, drop boxes, secure drops, encryption, Signal, Telegram, SM DMs, Tor, quiet coffees, infame, pardon, prizes, fees.
Spying operations have bred their counterparts, mirrored ops for use by themselves and by targets, then revolved into secondary cycles of smoke and mirrors to entrap original makers as well as copiers.
Secrecy is the magic potion for this ancient and current flummoxing of spies, customers, consumers, journalists, lawyers, influencers, daresay presidents and attorneys general.
To be sure, the secrecy potion is hardly foolproof, more likely a fools game of fools gold to be valued by those deciding who gets rewarded, punished, pardoned, re-elected. Not by the voting citizens of an authentic democracy but those who use that charming offense to cloak their reaping platinum benefits.