The flip side of that is we know some of those "higher up sources", although they may deny it vehimently, do read this board.
If the "higher up sources" see what they told to someone in confidence pop up on here twenty minutes later, you've lost a source (and maybe a friend).
Trust me, I've known stuff I'd have loved to post here, but I knew if I did it would ruin it for me and my sources.