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Originally Posted by Muta
This is sometimes my dilemma too. You'd think internally, the US government would be able to access anything they have, easily, regardless of department since they're all working under the same general umbrella. I'm assuming there's a lot more bureaucratic red tape and process internally than what we may understand. Also, national security is a reason to not go further public in many cases - and to be honest, that's a completely legit reason, since that kind of info or technology in the hands of foreign entities could be adversarial to the United States (at least in theory).
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So the US government has had this stuff in their possession for years/decades, and haven't been able to do anything useful with it. But show it to the public and - boom! - some rogue nation whips up a weapon from the technology.
Seems like a legit concern.