Really ? Seriously?
Benefit of doubt.....maybe you missed "hypothetical" ..(not an unusual oversight)
In the hypothetical it was that a covert program would be routinely discontinued after its goal is achieved.
Should be easy. It was a hypothetical.
This is why I propose hypothetical scenarios.
Sadly I find some here incapable of engaging this one.
What wouldn't conscious intelligent people get about that hypothetical ?
Perhaps you mis-read it.
Wait, unless maybe you are from a different system?
You have my apology if you somehow misunderstood, but now get it....
Otherwise....try look again
If you ran a covert operation, would you stop it, after it succeeded, ?
Simple enough IMO. Sometimes I think you guys are somehow blind.