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In reply to the discussion: EXCLUSIVE: Radar Data Suggests Missing Malaysia Plane Flown Deliberately Toward Andamans - Source [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)be the plane, the transponder's last ping at 1:20ish, and a couple of pings to a satellite from their running engines over a 4 hour period. The radar contacts are not further identified as anything but a blip in one place and one in another. Because that's all they have, and, they said, a "belief" that it must be the plane. Almost like a Creationist vs Evolutionary Science argument going on between people who have data and those who want things to be as they believe.
While it is possible that they have some magic military secret that lets their radar see things other people's radar can't, that leads me down the path of making shit up, and this isn't the time for that.
As well, and afaik there is NO information that leads to ANYTHING nefarious here, as yet, other than conjecture, much of which changes day by day.
Regardless, I would use my resources, and any others I can tap, to follow the data I know to be as accurate as I can be sure of.
It is interesting. Without much justification we are sending resources to the Indian Ocean, so I suspect we have reason to think we should commit those expensive resources there instead of somewhere else. We know the engines communicated for 4 hours, and perhaps they have some info we are not privy to,
As far as "How would authorities behave if valuable secret information leaked to the press?" <- You are not seriously asking that on DU I swear I already hear Snowden groupies on both sides scratching in the walls even though that's a different subject...
Sorry, I digress.
How much more valuable is my secret information than finding them? Do I think my country will be invaded because I let go of a satellite photo? Then we find a way to divulge it to an ally who says it is their info, or some other misdirection. There are ways.
Anyway, we wait...