[takebackaustin]

If their concern were public safety, they should have shut up and eaten the costs, rather than revealing the extent and nature of the british monitoring and coordination with the Spanish military, and the speed and nature of their reaction. This could have been a test of the system.

The reaction such as this press release is some kind of amateurish virtue signaling or security theatre from Spain. I am not blaming the brits, the drama queen reaction came from Spain, which kind of blabbed on the brits’ sources and methods for no useful purpose.

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If their concern were public safety, they should have shut up and eaten the costs, rather than revealing the extent and nature of the british monitoring and coordination with the Spanish military, and the speed and nature of their reaction. This could have been a test of the system.

The reaction such as this press release is some kind of amateurish virtue signaling or security theatre from Spain. I am not blaming the brits, the drama queen reaction came from Spain, which kind of blabbed on the brits’ sources and methods for no useful purpose.

I failed to consider the "test" possibility of this all. Solid post.

(And based on my previous dealings with Spanish government employees, I can totally buy that their top two priorities are:
1) Don't interrupt my siesta
and
2) My life is so dramatic you cannot ignore me!
and
3) Don't interrupt my siesta*





*yes, that's 3 things, not two, congratulations: you're now part of my #2) DRAMA !!!