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Originally Posted by lookout123
i think you are asking why you hear about the failures, not the successes, so...
if we report on the successes, the risk is that the enemy will know how you got the information used to spoil their plans. once you make public that an event was prevented, it is fairly simple for the enemy to backtrack and find out how we got our info, sources of information will be compromised and you can't use them in the future.
we always know about intel failures because it is on the evening news.
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But the enemy already knows their plans were spoiled.... and they probably have a good idea of why. It just doesn't make sense to me to keep it a secret from 'the people', especially if a warning of a possible attack has already been issued. Why not follow it up with "hey, we found a bomb and deactivated it" or "we arrested some terrorist guy renting a Ryder".
Something... you know?