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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] 12 points 1 year ago (21 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] 6 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I would happily sacrifice the life of every single [...] And you are a bad person if you wouldn't.

...says everything one needs to know about your morals and your attempts at manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awww the poor widdle spies! They were just innocently torturing innocent people at bwack sites, then destroying all evidence of torture! How dare they sacrifice these benevolent angels to save some RuZZian orc!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

How about not sacrificing anyone's life?

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