[mdmathis6]

The info save the lives of his men and foiled an attack..people were captured! They can worry about reliability of the source later...if the source himself was not killed by his fellows at some late date.

[Ispy4u]

The info may have save[d] the lives of his men and foiled an attack..people(named under duress and possibly innocent) were captured! They can worry about reliability of the source later (like right after bad info gets a whole lot more of our guys killed)...if the source(or operative who wanted to disrupt cooperation between West's unit and the police) himself was not killed by his fellows at some late date.

A little editorial correction to present an objective version of the story not biased by information released by only LTC West and his lawyers. Now that the badguys know that some leaders won't collaborate information with intel before acting on it it would be very easy to set them up for a truly horrendous attack.