[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Surely the constant leaking of intelligence reports, like the one mentioned above, which come to nothing, risk persuading the public that nothing will ever come of such reports, so that when the Wolf is really on it's way nobody will take any notice until it is to late.

Is this really the right way to run a security service?

Or is the constant leaking of reports a way for the intelligence services to let the Terrorists know that they are on to them and their plots? Either way it seems a bit unsophisticated and smacks of more than a little of the "Boy's Own" School of Espionage and Counter Intelligence.

Maybe they are trying to lull us into a sense of security with the idea that they knew and nothing has happened so they must have prevented it.