Lyndzee,
Although your post was an interesting read, I fear you may be misunderstanding previous posts to some extent. It sounds like you believe that the technology that the ITI has developed is a secret that is being kept from other nations and the world as a whole. In fact, this is not the case. Although the inner workings of the technology are, of course, highly classified, the ITI and the missions conducted so far are public knowledge and have been met with great media attention as you would imagine. Also, any nations who are developing their own technology are developed and allies to the US and the ITI.
We have no misunderstanding. The underlying theoretical physics involved in the program is obviously not a secret. Anyone who has Internet access can access Lanl-ArXiv and stay on top of what's going on in HEP, particle, QM and theoretical physics around the world. If they also have a subscription to Physical Letters A, B, etc. they have additional access to cutting edge physics research.
The secret, of course, is the applied physics and applied engineering aspects of the programs. But the program is time travel. As I said, forever is a very long time. The implication of this technology is that no secret will ever be a secret even in the past. You have forever to plan your compromise and if you fail you can always try again...and again...and again...
The best you can hope for is to delay discovery and obfuscate the times and places where the information can be obtained and the identities of the people who have custody of the information. And you've violated every aspect of those security measures. You've painted a bull's eye on yourself, your family and your friends. The bull's eye extends to your husband.
The object is to have a technological advantage over your competitors. The competing interests will eventually have the same technology. Just when the "other side" gains access to the technology in that scenario is part and parcel to the secret...and you've let the secret out of the bag not only as to time but as to precisely the person(s) who have knowledge, clearance and access to the secret. Specifically, you pointed to yourself by name as the most vulnerable and easily compromised actor in the scenario. During September of 2008 the older "you" is isolated and alone bragging about the project on the Internet. You have no tactical support or back-up in 2008 (and please don't embellish the story and say next that you brought a security team along...you've already excluded that possibility in other posts). The younger and clueless you, who can be identified, located, brought into custody, transported and concealed can be used as leverage to turn you.
I fully understand this sort of operation where weak security links are identified, compomised, exploited and turned through active intelligence efforts.
Additionally, you are under the assumption that DARPA works exclusively on military projects, however I have already explained that this is false.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is a branch of the Deparrtment of Defense. Their projects are under the exclusive direction of the DoD and they are all military.
This is DARPA's mission statement:
"DARPA’s mission is to maintain the technological superiority of the U.S. military and prevent technological surprise from harming our national security by sponsoring revolutionary, high-payoff research that bridges the gap between fundamental discoveries and their military use."
Maybe, you as Director misunderstand the mission of DARPA. I certainly don't.
And I want you ro pay particular to this portion of the mission statement: "
...prevent technological surprise from harming our national security."
It's a bit difficult to prevent technological surprise from harming national security when the Director is yapping about their projects on the Internet.
All in all, your reaction it seems was based on the idea that the ITI is something like the Manhattan Project - top secret from top to bottom, but it is not.
It is by it's very nature, as funded by the DoD, necessarily top secret. You've already stated that access to the technology is limited to a restricted set of our allies. It's a DoD project. No matter how you might paint the picture the competing interests who are the "have-nots" will be forced by the very nature of this mega force multiplier technology to treat the technology as a threat to their security.
Again, that's why real people involved in real secret research don't even hint at what they're working on. Intelligence agencies can make assumptions about what is being researched through passive surveillance. If they see who is involved and they know what their areas of expertise is the data analysts can make some very good guesses about what's going on. But when one of the leaders of the organization brags on the Internet it makes the analysis just a bit easier.
I must also note, that your understanding of the hierarchy of the government, specifically the Department of the Defense is incomplete and has more than one hole in it which I can only attribute to you not being involved in this segment of government first-hand.
I apologize for any confusion you may have encountered in previous posts.
No confusion here on how the government works, its heirachy or chain-of-command.
Finally, you are correct about one thing - research for time travel was underway in 2008 as you stated must be the case. In fact, it began in the late 1970s, but was not revealed to the public until about a year before the formation of the ITI.
There are no secrets when it comes to base theoretical work in physics. Governments don't recruit high school seniors whom they think
might one day become top scientists, sequester them for 12 years while they put them through a secret university undergrad and post-grad cirriculum and then put them to work on top secret projects in some dank basement. They recruit them after they get their PhD's {or while they are working on their PhD at times) once they have shown expertise in a specific field. How do they find them? Through their published papers.
How do you think that we were aware of Japan's fission bomb program during WW II? Dr. Yoshio Nishina's per-war papers. How do you think that we were aware of Germany's fission bomb program? Dr. Werner Heisenberg's pre-war papers. The projects themselves were top secret but it was rather easy to conclude that they were working on atomic weapons development.