the us government has never been a monolith. everything is compartmentalized, need-to-know. this is how they do their best psyops, they fool some of their own people so they become leakers and whistleblowers. the average government employee is a sub-100 iq, believes anything their superiors tells them. the people who actually know that it's just red teaming to test military and federal response and develop a better doctrine for the next 20 years when adversaries like china actually get this capability aren't running to the cia-run press.
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