I'm Going to Go by Smooth While We're Going to Get a Special

There's this specific nomenclature used when someone in the intelligence or military or otherwise governmental apparatus has the green light to speak, but not to go on record. A senior defense official i want to quote raises a point that i think we should all chew over just a little bit. There are soe who think we shouldn't do anything clandestine in that space. Seding an entire domain to an adversary would be unwise. But we need stronger policy guard rails. So e say, everybody else is doing it, why can't we?