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Old 06-18-2003, 02:25 PM   #12
MagiK
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Originally posted by antryg:
Just a wild guess on my part but if you are a spy or terrorist and one of your contacts disappears, don't you assume they have been arrested. I'm not sure that keeping names secret stops terrorists from figuring it out. If they think it will interfere with an investigation I could even stretch my faith/belief in waiting a week to make it public. Several months or "when I say so!" is totally unacceptable.

You aren't looking at it from the inside....If your contact disappears..you get scared...very scared....you don't know if you are next..or if the guy was just killed in a shoot out..or has he given you up? In this case..No information is good for the good guys and definately bad for the bad guys. You can paralyze an organization this way....tactics, tactics, tactics.