[Sean Osborne Lomax]

I don't, unless it happen to be a thinly veiled personal attack. The intent is personal and my reply is in kind.

Now for some free-wheelin'...

However, with repsect to rumors, I agree with you. They go through the vetting process, corroboration, collation with other peices of info so that hopefully to the greatest degree possible what one ends up with at the end of the day is valid actionable intelligence. This also involves seeing disinformation for what it is. Operational Deception included as well.

When you have multiple, highly reliable and vetted sources from within the government alphabet agencies or DoD all saying the same thing...damn, why would these people be taking such an extreme, extreme risk to get this info out???

Why indeed is the question. One possibility that I am hearing repeatedly and consistently is that there are some major problems and infighting within and between the inteligence and federal law enforcement agencies. And I mean MAJOR problems!!! Perhaps these people feel they have nowhere else to go, the nation is in extreme peril and they find it hard sleeping at night knowing what they know. So they talk.

Free-wheelin' completed.

[Domestic Church]

"between the intelligence and federal law enforcement agencies"

Same old FBI noncooperation with the CIA and visa versa? Or are there different political undertones?

[judicial meanz]

"Why indeed is the question. One possibility that I am hearing repeatedly and consistently is that there are some major problems and infighting within and between the inteligence and federal law enforcement agencies. And I mean MAJOR problems!!! Perhaps these people feel they have nowhere else to go, the nation is in extreme peril and they find it hard sleeping at night knowing what they know. So they talk."

There is a lot of infighting between agencies at the Federal and state levels in this country, and believe it or not, most of it is jockeying over the billions of dollars of Homeland Security money available. You wouldnt believe it. Its a feeding frenzy.