points by simoncion 8 hours ago | 0 comments
> Dear enemy - bombers maintained by shop X...
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.
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.