Elon Musk at the Pentagon

Elon Musk is getting a bird's eye view of pretty well everything to do with running the government, including it seems how the Pentagon would address a war with China, according to the New York Times. If accurate, it would be a highly unusual development for someone who is unelected, despite his closeness to Trump, getting a classified briefing on such a controversial and need-to-know subject. Of course Musk is boss of Space X and his low-orbiting satellites are a brilliant addition to the Pentagon's surveillance and early-warning networks. But to present him with the plan for going to war with China, if that is what happens at the meeting in the Pentagon today, he will be one of the privileged few to be trusted with such information. It demonstrates the extraordinary role Trump has given Musk. He's a roving right-hand man, keeping watch on behalf of the president,on every aspect of the government machine. I guess his next visit will be to the CIA and the other intelligence services. Every government department and agency will at some stage have to be "Musked". That's the way Trump wants it.