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Tl;dw
Essentially the CIA and DHS are highly involved in the production, including script writing. Pretty much like everything Tom Clancy's was ever involved with (including posthumously). Tom.Clancy used to give talks at the NSA, had his books reviewed by the intelligence agencies before publishing, etc.
Pretty sad how quickly Lemmy turned into a shitlib space that pointing out that stuff literally done in collaboration with the intelligence and militaries agencies is fucking propaganda.
But those two tidbits about Tom Clancy are fun.
The NSA reviewed his books and asked him to present his sources because he concluded a bunch of classified information using unclassified sources.
Feel free to tl;dw me for the link, it's only fair, but it's a very interesting listen
https://youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M
Yeah that speech is referenced by Secker. I'll save it for later, but I'd still appreciate the TL;DW.
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