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American intelligence withheld information on Moscow terror attacks out of fear of exposing intelligence sources or methods (www.nytimes.com)

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The adversarial relationship between Washington and Moscow prevented U.S. officials from sharing any information about the plot beyond what was necessary, out of fear Russian authorities might learn their intelligence sources or methods.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Presumably there's 100s of spies you would kill all of them to spare one life?

Thats 100s of families torn apart 1000s of people for one person.

So trolly problems a no brainer for you?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They’re from Hexbear, what do you expect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I use connect for lemmy so i don't see that without looking into it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

It's the life of someone going about their existence, trying to enjoy a performance vs the lives of people who willingly signed up for a dangerous job to serve the world's bloodiest empire.

Thinking you can do morality with numbers is sociopath behavior.