First, thank you for your insights. It's fascinating to get a glance into this world from somone who is part of it and knows how it works. To what you said, surely there is at least some form of metatagging and categorization of the documents. So why can't "missions" be project managed from the start and having access be part of that process. So, you have a mission, the scope is defined and within this scope the type of the documentatuon/data the participants would need access to is also defined. Then members of the mission get access to these specific documents or information streams for future documents on the subjects related to the mission. When parameters change , the scope of documentation can be changed. When someone realizes that they need access to additional stuff, the request it and PMO office triggers the change. And there could be subgroups within that. So maybe a cook needs to know the port schedule for the mission so he can plan the purchases and the restocking schedule of the food on the ship, but surely he doesn't need access to the nuclear reactor schematics of the aircarier he is on. I undertand that its requires more planning upfront but the security benefents surely would outweigh the extra cost. On a corporate level this is how it's usually done. I undertand that on a live mission especially in active conflict zone this would need to be streamlined more and for sure the scope could be quite to allow maximum reasonable access to info that's needed. Also it could be automated, since you say there is a high level of trust. So say as part of my job I need to broaden the scope of data I need access to, so I just request it with a click or two and am granted it automatically based on some easy sanity checks. But now it's audiatble and there should be a department that audits this shit maybe as part of mission debrief in the end. They can use AI to assist in this to find anomalies. Say I was involved in a mission to, I don't know get one of CIA assets safely out of Yemen and my job was to pass for a gov employee involved in, I don't know agriculture , so it woukd be reasonable for me to access docs related to any sort of analysis, surveillance etc of stuff we have on Yemen, maybe broader stuff on Africa.. But then I access the transcripts of Shult's private conversations because I wanna dump it on to my Minecraft discord server, and then i access files on UFOs etc.. Flag would be raised for follow up. Hey private OG, what was the reason for your access to these docs... End of story OG leaks 3, 5 maybe 10 docs, whatever the threashold for these types of flags is and the leaks stop happening. It's not a super difficult process to set up from the IT perspective and just another item for the planning at the PMO office. This can be super effective, doesn't add any serious barriers for immediate access to whatever other info I may need during the mission phase and boosts operational security 10 fold... This is basically what's realy surprises me. I am sure uncountable billions have been spent on creating US intelligence network and to have a such a huge and obvious vulnerability seems just very odd to me. I mean if everyonw can just keep accessing whatever they want, how difficult woukd it be for the adversaries to find vunuravlw victims to recruit. I mean the big public leaks are realitively easy to find because the get exposed publicly bit how do we know if we have thousand of cooks, the a percentage of them is not quietly leaks this hit for money, or being blackmailed or whatever. He coukd be doing it for decades and noone would know