[elzbardico]

Well, there's a fucking giant very busy revolving door between the federal government and the private sector. Those people have connections, but they are also able interpret open source intelligence signals and their implications in a way that most of us can't, because we don't know the internal machinery.

In fact, most big banks and other big companies have retired defense and intelligence people explicitly working on risk assessment.

[bottlepalm]

I guess when you grow up, you figure out the internal machinery isn't as interesting as your imagination thinks it is. And also that somehow the people involved are part of some secret network that has the ability to keep the truth from you. That's some good old fashioned 90s x-files mentality.

[DANmode]

It’s not a secret, or something you need to grow up to understand, ya condescending prick.

It’s (often unspoken) quid pro quo.

Like getting years of millions of dollars in speaking deals from corps after a favorable administration.

I noticed you had no retort for my other (name dropping) reply…