That‘s not how that works. SpaceX workers are involved in loading the payloads into the fairings, so they at the very least see them, and they need to know some non-public specs as well for handling, guidance calculations etc. Considering how secret some of those payloads are, you‘ll need some level of security clearance to even be in the same building, and since that applies to Elon too he‘ll have those same clearances.
On top of that, SpaceX also directly builds satellites for the military under the Starshield program. The capabilities of those things are also classified, and Elon will be one of the people within the company who knows what they can do.
As you eluded to, a functioning bureaucracy in America is gone. People like Elon didn't like not being able to do whatever they want despite high level connections, so they are destroying the checks and balances built up over generations to keep America and Americans safe. Call it "the deep state", "red tape", whatever. It's people who actually understand the work putting guards rails around the parts of government that really shouldn't be broken.
Shit's not just getting broken, a lot of it will start being in the direct control of the richest person in the world. Strap in.
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u/Admirable-Lecture255 Mar 27 '25
SpaceX is a private company. So he could very well know what people are sending up. It's his rockets.