You know as well as I that the MSM was directed to 'retract' the initial statements as the gov needed time to do the 'BDA' from the entire incident.
I think the higher ups realized that the truth was going to come out regardless because of the number of witnesses involved and they (the feds) decided they need to go on and tell the truth. Unfortunately if any terror ties (which were immediately denied by the officials) are now coming into light before our friends in the NSA, CIA etc., have had time to react in foreign lands in that I am pretty sure her 'boy friend' and associates are well hidden now.
People in the government rarely feel the need to tell the truth unless there is a distinct gain from it. As in many businesses, people are informed on a need to know basis.
You ever had Top Secret accompanied with SCI, SSBI, and/or DIS clearances at the same time? Please do not try and tell me how such things can work / do work.
It's entertaining to speculate, however, it insults me personally that the LSM and some of the young crack pots in the system assume all in the general public are ignorant and stupid.
I do admire your calm disposition(s) from yesterday, and to some degree you called it as it would happen in the media. However, within 1 hour of landing and Mayo in custody, the OIC's already knew who they had and the risk(s) involved. If there was an agent already on board whether Brit, US or other, then we knew who 'we' had and her ties before the plane was ever landed.
One of the beauties of counterintelligence is making it look like somebody goofed and letting something 'slip'.
I want to know where the "claustrophobic" term came from yesterday.....one of the arab writers at Reuters or AP?
It was picked up by 1000s of news organizations and the whole incident was summarily written off.