When you are part of the NORAD agreement, it's transparent. With the mission assigned to NORAD, I had full access to everything that related to the NORAD mission. From time to time, some staff officer would come and say it's not foreign, especially when there was a new event coming from another command outside NORTHCOM. I would raise my hand and go to the commander and say, “We have a NORAD agreement. It says here that I need to have knowledge”, and right away the conversation would change to full access to what was required to perform the NORAD mission.
