I agree. You can't maintain credibility by telling everyone that you are the only legal source of information about a subject, even if that subject is yourself

I agree. You can't maintain credibility by telling everyone that you are the only legal source of information about a subject, even if that subject is yourself. Because in situations like these, the facts of the case look indistinguishable from an operation that was revealed by an unofficial, unauthorized source. That tells me that there are in fact times they would like the general public to know about their operations, and separately, those unauthorized sources seem to match the official ones a lot of the time. With that established, we can move on to trying to discern their motivations when they decide it is important we know the details of their operations, and why they would seemingly go against the very advice that they so rabidly bark to everyone else.