If there was some Vegas sports book I'd bet the odds are in the direction he's a bit loony or lacks analytical skills at a minimum, or had any real data.
Gov jobs in intelligence isn't exactly an exclusive club for intelligent people after all. Which is usually where the bulk of credibility is built on.
> As our chart shows, the federal government grants top secret security clearance to large numbers of government employees and contractors: 1.25 million according to the latest publicly available figures.
Here's an analogy ... one of the core devs of some important language finds a bug that would have wide ranging security implications world wide but doesn't really want to reveal evidence of it and his colleagues certainly don't either.
Imagine some smart pilot or govt official (with no knowledge of our field) saying "it's not like these guys work in some exclusive club for intelligent people" ?
Gov jobs in intelligence isn't exactly an exclusive club for intelligent people after all. Which is usually where the bulk of credibility is built on.
> As our chart shows, the federal government grants top secret security clearance to large numbers of government employees and contractors: 1.25 million according to the latest publicly available figures.
https://www.statista.com/chart/29717/top-secret-federal-gove...