>>512132060 (OP)
if you were a glowie you'd know how impossible it would be for you to know that unless you were in that operation.
defense intelligence industry is privatized and corrupt. people that do nothing for the the US get their checks signed as long as the paperwork makes it look like they did something they can be paid to do.
influence operations, securing assets. the moment those characters became potentially influential they got a knock on the door from someone.