Lyndzee,
In fact, Lyndzee Grummond is not my real name. One of those names is my own, however the other is a name chosen for me to use during my travel in order to protect my identity so that no attempts will be made to contact me or those associated with me in 2008. I am sure you understand why this is the way it must be.
Doncha think that someone will be able to figure it out? You're one of two Co-Directors of DARPA in the not-too-distant future in a time travel enabled society. Your consortium has decided to keep the technology to themselves and you've advertised that fact. Considering the nature of the technology the research would have to be going on - well - right now.
There are other countries who would want that technology
first - and eventually will have it at some future date. They know who you are when you're the Co-Director. They'd know who you are today. As I said, they very well might want to have the technology first (before the USA, EU and Japan has it) and keep the technology to themselves similar to what you've done to them in your time. DARPA is a military function and the systems they develop are for the military. The other countries would have to assume that the technology is a threat to them forever. And as I also said above, they will eventually have the technology themselves. There's not a single technological advancement that's ever been made that hasn't eventually become available to competing interests.
Can they get any information from the "you" in 2008 if they want to compromise DARPA's efforts in the future? No. Can they compromise your situation in the future by taking aggressive action in 2008? Absolutely. For example, they can kidnap you in 2008 and deliver the ransom message in 2024. They can also take other less intrusive actions that compromise you in the future and gurantee that they obtain the technology first.
And they have "forever" to put this plan into action.
The lesson: There's a reason why secret projects are secret. There's a reason why people entrusted with a nation's secrets are told that they aren't to even hint at what they are involved in. And that's the reason why top administrators who have access to information concerning multiple secret projects, people like Directors and Deputy Directors, don't get involved in field operations. Once they are compromised - as you've been compromised here -
all of their information is compromised. Further, to avoid the maverick situation where the Director decides to go off the reservation, there is a chain-of-command in DARPA that is short and ends with the Secretary of Defense who answers directly to the President...not to mention that the Air Force and Army have Colonels assigned to the Director as military liaison and over-site of the military programs.
I'll give you some credit for being a decent writer and crafting an above the rest TT story. But you've made the same mistakes that most of the others make. You don't understand how real information security works or how intelligence/counter-intelligence works. And you look at time travel's implications myopically. Virtually any disclosure that you're a time traveler works against your interests because there's no place to hide once the cat's out of the bag.
