> “Isn’t “Q”, then, committing a federal crime in saying that he has this clearance? Especially in naming this highly special clearance?”
A ‘Q’ clearance is likely a nominal clearance, a placeholder for a classified clearance. That would be my take.
I would think the ‘Q’ clearance is not compartmentalized if the President is involved. All other clearances are compartmentalized, limited.
The spec op clearances are time-limited. They are activated, then are deactivated.
RL and another FReeper cracked the code: Q speaks in Socratic prose/questions, and the ‘speaker’ in Socratic under-the-lemon-tree classes was called the Questioner (who used the method), or, ‘Q’.
Okay. I thought you were giving me information that you had firm knowledge of. It looks like it's, rather, an educated guess to explain what the answer could be in order to justify one's belief that "Q" is legit.
I'm still looking forward to the links you are going to send to explain the "AI Bot Scanners" that are designed to find the location of the sender of the "drops".
I am interested to see what they might trigger on that would be avoided by "Q" posting in cryptic ways.
It would seem to me that it would be easier to trigger on something out of the ordinary, so you wouldn't get a lot of false hits. For example, you could trigger on cryptic text that doesn't match normal English rules. Or, you could trigger on the letter "Q" at the end of each message.