Nah. A single fucked-up maintenance shop is a single fucked-up maintenance shop. You can gut-check this by noticing that bombers weren't routinely falling out of the sky.
FedGov simply didn't want to be deeply embarrassed and wanted to try to wiggle out of paying a quarter million 1940s USD to the widows. Because they were unwilling to admit to their negligence and face the consequences, they did deep and lasting damage to the US justice system by introducing a mechanism that lets FedGov conceal nearly any evidence for any reason by uttering the words "state secrets privilege".
[–] awesome_dude 1 day ago
[–] simoncion 8 hours ago
If the enemy could track back the bomber to the shop that maintained it based on the information in that report, they
a) Already knew that it crashed.
b) Already knew if any other bombers maintained by that shop had crashed.
As I said, bombers weren't routinely falling out of the sky. And as I suggested, releasing a declassified report that only covered the reason for the crash revealed nothing that the enemy didn't already know.
[–] awesome_dude 5 hours ago
The enemy thanks you for your cooperation in telling them where possible weaknesses are
edit: While the FedGov absolutely abused the privilege in Reynolds to hide negligence, from a pure intelligence standpoint, operational maintenance audit trails are rarely "harmless" information to hand to an enemy during a War. (Cold or otherwise)
You're telling the enemy where to look.
1. One actually did.
2. Dear enemy - bombers maintained by shop X...