folk -vs- ("giggling"?!) spook-engineers ... speaks volumes about Priorities: if it's even ~truthiness, it underscores the complete disdain
of 'the military' (and its==Our 'industrial complex') for any human (even 'humanity's) efforts to advance--in this case-- the entire science of astronomy.

You can't be guilty of more dense rote-cynicism than that.
(Maybe a President needed to create an Executive Order--and did/didn't get the Information ... it was Needed.)
Or did 'know'--we shan't discover the truth, in any case. :-/