[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...if was as routine as they now pretend, would it really be necessary to go to the military base-perhaps to use a SCIF???? Something ain’t adding up.

Couple of other bees to stick in your bonnet:

If it's a nothingburger OR Armageddon, why...no...leaks?

Telling a "normal" politician anything at all is tantamount to broadcasting each and every detail worldwide and that deal goes exponential if the word "Security" is even hinted.

Call something a genuine MIL grade SECRET (or worse yet TS) and they'd be fighting each other to blab (or, even more likely, find a way to make a buck with it).

Ergo, if there's anything about that that's serious there must have been testicle (or orvarian) lock boxes applied or...(my vote) it's a nothingburger.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

I agree, Politicians hold secrets about as well as a colander holds water.

At the very least they discussed Foreign attempts to schmooze the reps and to obtain access to technology or agricultural technology. There were also discussions about how to prevent vote fraud through things like hacking voting booths.

Its odd. I don't remember anything like this being done before. Not really a nothingburger.

(View toward Kansas from WW1 memorial in K.C. MO.)

[greeneyes]

Well, it’s a good point—and I hope it is a nothingburger.
I mean why would you tell any politician anything of consequence?

On the other hand, you’d think the pols would be blabbling about it—maybe it’s just an embarrassing (to the pols) nothingburger. Some day we’ll know - or maybe we won’t. shrug