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Originally Posted by jammies
Sometimes evidence can be a pointer to how the evidence is collected. So raw data has to be transformed to keep your sources safe, or decisions have to made without benefit of the original data altogether.
Obviously this makes it easy to manipulate what you do have to support what you want it to support. Which is how fiascos like the 2nd invasion of Iraq get started. However, it's pretty well an insoluble problem because if you don't hide how you get your data to a certain extent, it becomes trivial to insert disinformation and you end up making decisions on what your enemies want you to believe is true.
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I think that is about right.
The only evidence that would appease Russia and China would also have include details on how the evidence was collected in order to be believable. The U.S., for obvious reasons, does not want to give that information to their major rivals (of whom they are likely also monitoring in a similar regard).
I don't claim to know what is really happening, but sharing evidence is not that easy in a situation like this.