I agree, something wasn’t right.
I remember when Ronald Reagan read and enjoyed “Hunt For Red October” and asked Clancy to have lunch. Reagan asked him how he knew so much “secret stuff”.
I can’t remember what Clancy told him.
Clancy had a lot of good sources and I’m sure he had heard some bad things about what was going on in DC.
to my knowledge he had been given access to information to write his (final)book and somebody wasn’t happy about him & his access-even from prior books.
i guess it’s ture that dead men tell no tales.