NO ONE wants to be held responsible for a screw up or not checking every box. It is a massive "Cover Your Ass" business. It just gets bigger and more ridiculous with each loop around the offices. That's how you end up with endless troops, fences with razor wire, bomb squads, political purity tests, and probably submarines in the potomac in case the peasants decide to cross the river dressed in revolutionary war attire.
Gotta understand government groupthink.
NO ONE wants to be held responsible for a screw up or not checking every box. It is a massive "Cover Your Ass" business. It just gets bigger and more ridiculous with each loop around the offices. That's how you end up with endless troops, fences with razor wire, bomb squads, political purity tests, and probably submarines in the potomac in case the peasants decide to cross the river dressed in revolutionary war attire.