Are defence contractors really angling to keep everything a secret forever? In my opinion, no. They’re angling for control in a transparent environment.

Did defence contractors just corner military leadership into transparency by displaying flagrant influence of congress? They control their funding but not their companies themselves. Seems to me like they are concerned with personal survival and ability to profit off the tech more than they can be threatened by military leadership to keep secrets.

Im starting to think that if defence contractors didn’t want this themselves; they simply would have let the NDAA pass with no hassle and hid everything away in a way no one could ever find it. Really; how would they not discern that an action such as what they did is a blatant admission of something?

I guess you could say that the eminent domain clause was put in to smoke them out and force them to make a move in public over the NDAA but still. I just think if they were still fully invested in keeping it secret forever they would have just smiled and said great now that you passed that law it doesn’t exist and good luck proving that even after having access to everything.

That would have been THE route to plausible denaibility and yet they conciously threw that strat out the window and directly pressured congress in the public eye. If they had jusy smiled and waved, then it would be forevermore a conspiracy that anyone had these kinds of materials or technology.

It would have been easier too, no convincing senators to change language or anything. NDAA passes without a hitch everyone plays dumb and it’s smooth sailing.

To me I’m seeing it as more and more unlikely that most sides of this situation are against transparency on this issue.

The narrative that most parties involved are against transparency or its even close to 50/50 is pretty hard to justify to me. This whole situation required people at the highest echelons of the administration and unelected officials to either tacitly ignore or be friendly to the pro transparency faction. Certainly they didn’t get retaliated against enough to be quiet so there’s something there aswell.

Tldr; if defence companies were really all in on keeping their secrets forever, why not just agree to the NDAA and lie cheat and steal to do just that? Why all the public drama ? It’s a bad PR strat for long term secret keeping imo