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American intelligence withheld information on Moscow terror attacks out of fear of exposing intelligence sources or methods (www.nytimes.com)

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The adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow prevented U.S. officials from sharing any information about the plot beyond what was necessary, out of fear Russian authorities might learn their intelligence sources or methods.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Intelligence methods like paying said attackers

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (16 children)

This is why most classified information is withheld and Russia isn't exactly an ally right now.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

First it was that they did it and now it's that Americans didn't do enough to stop it lol.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I mean... if it was the US's agents doing the coordination and planning, then yes. This makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I stay with "fear of exposing intelligence". There is no need to fear something that does not exist

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