>The government isn’t that great at secrets.
Do you really mean this? Are you saying that the government is incapable of keeping a certain fact secret, if exposing it will compromise national security?
Do you really mean this? Are you saying that the government is incapable of keeping a certain fact secret, if exposing it will compromise national security?
Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra
> The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967, and officially halted in 1973.
and
> Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress...
22 years they kept that from the public. Seems like they did a pretty good job keeping that secret.
MKUltra was wide in scope but no earth-shattering new information was revealed, and I suspect most of those involved didn’t really know the big picture (and the ones that did were likely either too ashamed or too patriotic to talk about it).
That’s a very different type of “big” than, e.g., “we found an alien spaceship in the desert”.
Again, our little argument was asking if such information would ever be revealed to the public if it was found. So including this particular argument is no possible..