"Compartmentalization" (...I know. What ever happened to using simple English terms everyone could understand?)
1.
Based on my experiences with Navy life and concepts,
"compartmentalization" applies to the way ships are constructed;
providing multiple sections of water-tight spaces. When properly sealed
by the crew, if only a limited number of those spaces get flooded, the
ship will still have a chance to stay afloat.
2.
In spy/terrorist situations, the concept of "compartmentalization" can
also be utilized, although in a much different environment. Instead of
holding out water in multiple sections, "informational
compartmentalization" is designed to prevent critical information from
spreading to too many members in the organization. With that particular
feature, if a limited number of "cohorts" get discovered or infiltrated
by the enemy, the remaining groups could theoretically continue towards
accomplishing the organization's goals without "sinking".
3.
When I was in the Navy, I had a "Secret" security clearance. As a new
junior officer, I excitedly, naively assumed that I would have clearance
to see all classified information below the level of "Top Secret". But
it didn't take long for me to learn that that wasn't the case. You
see, the Navy's security clearance efforts to "compartmentalize" its
sensitive information also came with the qualifier: "...and the need to
know." Even if the file was classified "Secret" or "Confidential," if I
didn't have "the need to know" (...meaning it was "none of my
business"!) I was not allowed access.
...If
I had fallen (or been thrown!) off of my ship and captured by the
"enemy", the only military things that I knew -- that could be "tortured
out of me" -- were the memorized details of a 1960's-era destroyer, how
to write subordinates' performance reviews, and, get this, what
prescription medicines we kept in the first aid kit!
Tactically-speaking, I was pretty much a "nobody". I didn't have,
therefore couldn't give up, any significant, valuable secrets.
Conversely and thus, in this kind of a system, (the higher the
clearance you have) + (the more you need to know), the more valuable
info that can be lost to "the bad guys."
"Diffusion of Responsibility"
(I
found the info quoted below on the internet which I sincerely doubt
would be worth lying about.... But you just never know., do you?)
On the topic of firing squad protocols:
"...Sometimes,
one or more members of the firing squad may be issued a weapon
containing a blank cartridge. In such cases, members of the firing squad
are not told beforehand whether or not they are using live ammunition.
This is believed to reinforce the sense of diffusion of responsibility among the firing squad members." And "...In
more recent times, such as in the execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner in
the American state of Utah in 2010, one rifleman may be given a "dummy"
cartridge containing a wax bullet instead of a lead bullet, which
provides a more realistic recoil."
Based
on my previous understanding and these confirming details, my
interpretation of "diffusion of responsibility" is that efforts can be
intentionally coordinated to alter the perception of what an individual
in a team does (...or fears he does) by making it somewhat possible that
it wasn't actually HIM that did it. (E.g. Firing squad member) +
(possibly fake bullet) + (shot aimed at victim's heart) = (possibly NOT
actually responsible for victim's death).
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So,
combining "information compartmentalization" and firing squad
"diffusion of responsibility", it's not so hard to imagine how a
national election could be stolen; given enough motivation, money and
time... While simultaneously doing it all so that no one person or
group (...other than, perhaps, "top leadership", that is...) has to feel
totally guilty for doing it!
If
no one in Detroit, Michigan needed to know, and thus didn't know, what
was happening in Philadelphia, PA, they wouldn't have to feel
particularly guilty afterwards. If those responsible for feeding fake,
duplicate and/or otherwise invalid ballots into an election machine in
Fulton County Georgia after the polls were closed didn't know about
internet connections and software "improprieties" in ANY of the targeted
"swing states", they really couldn't be blamed for "that much fraud".
Catching one, or even several, election-center volunteers cheating
would be the equivalent of the enemy capturing a low-ranking sailor
floating helplessly in the long-gone wake of his more threatening
"mother ship".
No
one individual or small team caught at any of the lower levels would
represent a "leak" big enough to change the election's outcome.
Breaking up the total cheating efforts into many smaller pieces, using
various types of manipulation, with a well-trained damage control team
on stand-by to fix any "accidental leaks and/or slip-ups" (such as
placing cardboard sheets over observation windows) the "Ocean's 2020"
star-studded thieves could have effectively turned an unimaginable
operation into an almost "sure thing".
And, once pulled off, the payoffs would be far greater than their massive, initial investments required.
Oh
yeah... Even though a "Doubting Thomas" before, now I see at least one
LIKELY way how "The Fix" could have been pulled off. (By the way,
didn't "they" brag about doing "it" in that Time magazine article in
January 2021?)
...As if that wasn't bad enough, I see no reason why -- with much less effort -- that it couldn't be done again!
...And again.
...And again.
...Until it never needed to be done at all.
So, if you're like I used to be where "winning means everything"... and your candidate won this time... No big deal, right?
...Not so fast.
What if your candidate, disappointing as he already is, doesn't even make it in office past the Spring of 2021" and his "replacements" (...who you weren't really voting for in the first place) show themselves to be much worse? What if you want -- or absolutely need -- to vote for the other side next time?
But then, after voting for the other side next time, what if things turn out to be even worse than
in Nov. 2020? As a voter, you'll certainly have the “clearance" to find
out what's going on; our Constitution guarantees that.
But what if the government tells you... "Sorry, citizen, but you don't have the need to know"?
For middle class Americans who voted for Biden in 2020, I suspect winning will never seem so bad... so soon...
***sound of microphone dropping***
