I will tell you my own case then relate it with Falcon, he is too humble to promote himself. I have two close friends in IA and a close senior all at good officers rank. Both my friends were my roommate and it was close group of friends including my senior, all very closely bonded. Right now one of them is in Kashmir and another moved few days back with tanks to Rajasthan. None of them tells me anything not even a nod or general statement. This is how hard it is to get credible info.
The one in Kashmir is very comfortable in sharing his business accounts details I even have his netbanking password as he is heavily dependent on me for his IT needs but not a yes or no to confirm even Babajis statement. Even asking certain questions raise eyebrows and its best to avoid talking on operational matters. Falcon is retired professional, and I dont know how he does that but he certainly gives this forum the most credible info we can find, maybe because of his good contacts he gets a pass or whatever he does. I follow plenty of retired high ranking officials on Twitter and its impossible to find one tweet even hinting at something. They know it all but chose not to share as it will create problems.
Follow defence journalists those who spent life creating sources and how many of them will you see sharing anything close to what Falcon shared? This is when they are paid to get such scoops, they are either shut off or not authorized to share the information. This is very thankless job to bug someone and verify the facts and then write them in a way that you dont give the whole picture yet people can connect the dots. The last thing we should do is to make them feel unpleasant or unwelcome, most people and I suppose even you said what you said because you were not aware of him but lot of people are following him from years now and his track record is very solid. So lets enjoy and analyze what he posts and take it as per our liking.
Good Day to you.
will take time....
