How utterly convincing and elegantly stated. Did you spend a great deal of time working on your dissertation?
Cool story bro, run with that for your "journalism" piece. You are late to that party but hey, "they don't send their best" so that must be you. Late bloomer/underachiever.
Anybody who ever worked for the Govt in any capacity would get it-Compartmentalization. That's the way it all operates and always did.