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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Wait, wasn't it already said that the proof was a phone call which was traced between Assad and the chemical weapons unit? Pretty sure I read that so the idea of them not wanting to give up how they got their proof makes no sense.
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And knowing that, do you think Assad is going to give any further sensitive orders over telephone? He's certainly now going to have his security services trying to figure out how the US intercepted that call, and possibly close that leak. It's not like local calls are bounced off satellites, so it looks like somehow the Syrian military phone network has been compromised.
Or, maybe someone in the loop taped the call, sent it on, and the US only wants Syria to *think* the network has been compromised. And they want other players in the region to also worry about their own networks, thus spending valuable resources on looking for a non-existent threat.
However, that kind of Machiavellian ploy is more like something the Russians might do, whereas the Americans are probably just thinking that everyone already knows they monitor all kinds of electronic traffic, so this is the kind of hard data point they can afford to give up to further their narrative. But that doesn't mean they are going to go into detail on how all their intel is collected.