Comment by dotnet00
2 years ago
Counterpoint would be that in such a situation, all it would take is one credible leak to destroy the government's reputation, and there is a lot of incentive to blow the whistle since most people tend to not want to see the people they were working to protect being raped and murdered.
It could be the decision of just one or a handful of people. It's easy enough to take all the intelligence reports and decide to put them in a big pile and ignore them till next week.
If anyone asks, you had too much work and were snowed under by reports, and you didn't think waiting a week would matter.