Originally Posted by
Dee Vee
Seriously? so you think just calling it a "security incident" means the bad guys won't know the authorities are on to them???
Sure, but they don't know how you found out. The more detail you give, the more they know, and the more likely they are to figure out where the leak is and take care of it. Not only do you risk losing the intelligence source, the manner it which they get rid will maximize the deterrence effect on other potential sources. Why help them figure out and eliminate the leak, just to satisfy your curiosity?
Hows your WWII history? You remember something called "Ultra"? Do you know that Ultra was considered so secret, and so critical to the Allied war effort, that sometimes the Allies intentionally didn't act on Ultra intelligence - allowing a German attack to proceed unmolested rather than tip their hand that they'd broken the German code and knew what they were up to?