Special Branch police know who leaked information about suspected ISIS presence

[OnTheRun]

Probably have spent more man hours searching for the whistleblower than the actual terrorists. Pathetic.

If not for the whistleblower, would the public have been told ANYTHING about the potential threat? Or would the RTP just wait for an attack and gracelessly fumble their way through another cover-up?

Of course we wouldn't have been told. You cant put falling tourist numbers / revenue before peoples free choice whether to act upon or ignore such a threat.

[harrry]

The smile on his face may be as he knows the reward for product placement./

[weegee]

I foresee yet another transfer to the already overcrowded operations centre.

I wonder what they do with officers who are transferred to an inactive post and manage to screw up there ?

They are then transferred to Civil Aviation???.....

[berybert]

Probably have spent more man hours searching for the whistleblower than the actual terrorists. Pathetic.

If not for the whistleblower, would the public have been told ANYTHING about the potential threat? Or would the RTP just wait for an attack and gracelessly fumble their way through another cover-up?

"If not for the whistleblower, would the public have been told ANYTHING about the potential threat?"

​In all likelihood, no, the public would not have been informed.

​Thailand aside, do you think it is realistic for your own intelligence services to inform the population of the country with every snippet of received intelligence communication they have?

Because this is the sort of situation you all seem to be ranting at .........................

As for the person who leaked the information, this person should have a lot to answer for. And for the authorities to even think along the lines of "....he didn’t believe the leaker had ill intention...." is ridiculous. IMHO, this person should be dismissed their position immediately, not just for generating mass hysteria and uncalled for speculation by the release but for the revelation of nationally classified documentation.

Although it may hurt the egos of some, just because we all have mobile media in our lives now, it doesn't mean everybody has the right to know everything.

You mention mass hysteria, can you point out where some of this mass hysteria can be found ? I have looked but as of yet have been unable to locate it.

[waldroj]

As Sir Humphrey Appleby noted when talking with the Right Honourable Jim Hacker, “Open government, Prime Minister. Freedom of information. We should always tell the press freely and frankly anything that they could easily find out some other way”.

Yes, Prime Minister

Episode One: The Grand Design

Series One (1986)

[Si Thea01]

To those of you who sit back and complain about what the Special Branch are doing, just look at the treatment dished out to Julian Assange, and what the governments of Great Britain, America and Australia have imposed on whistle blowers. I know this is about Thailand but it is still revelant because so many are going off whole hog and are maybe forgetting that this does happen elsewhere.

[Ricardo]

My private sources have leaked to me that it was Colonel Mustard, in the Casino, with the Mobile-Phone.

Otherwise I wouldn't have a Cluedo !

[phoenixdoglover]

It was Aod.