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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] 1 points 7 months ago (34 children)

thats kinda shady

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (32 children)

Espionage is kinda shady in nature.

Do you think they should have outed their spies, dooming them to a certain death?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (24 children)

Yes. In fact, I would happily sacrifice the life of every single American spy abroad for a single innocent life. And you are a bad person if you wouldn't.

And this is ignoring the fact that you are completely making up that a better warning would have "doomed them to certain death".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

imagine talking about american spies like they're people. you have to be a bloodless skin-wearing demon to actively keep making the world worse every day of your existance after you join up, i hope they all suffer from nightmares at the very fucking least

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