Anonymous wrote:I have to wonder why we are leaking this type of intelligence publicly just to try to embarrass Putin. Nobody in his country cares what we knew or when we knew it. Why bother?

If the US Embassy in Moscow issues another warning in the future, I bet local Russians will keenly pay attention. And even worse, Putin publicly ridiculed our warning!

It's the equivalent of Babe Ruth calling his shot in the 1932 WS. Good way to undermine internal confidence in the Putin regime.