Backchannels are important.
Know your history and you will know why.
Q
Makes me think of this. Sum of all fears. There are more good people in the world than there are bad.
Backchannels bypass bureaucratic red tape and corrupted plants in high offices.
What if, the military industrial complex joined with the intelligence agencies of the world because they were taken over by certain families over a long period of time? What if, most of the worlds, "intelligence agencies," were really one big organization posing as different, "national," agencies?
Holy crap. I got Q'd. Ok, let me think about that for a bit.