Do people with security clearance end up going nuts when they think everyone knows the "secret" anyway but they cannot talk about it?
I have no clearance.
Over the years, I have known things that weren’t in the wild, simply by being in situations where they appeared to be common knowledge, but…not so much.
I can’t even count the times I got blasted for saying something that I thought was obvious, only to find out I’d wandered into TS areas. 😬
How am I supposed to know it’s TS? I don’t have clearance.
All this to say. I find it very difficult to trust just about anyone. I never know who I’m really talking to.