I agree - and with this kind of stuff, somehow we're prone to looking at the government like it's a perfectly running black box, with an all-reaching, all-encompassing power and control over information. But if you look at these pieces of information that have gone out - "something is being reported by our people, we don't actually know what is it, people are talking about it to the outside as well, we thought we add some equipment to see if we can find out more" - it seems much more realistic to me, and much more in line with inefficient, clumsy and sometimes incompetent government that it is...