True but when your enemies are still in disguise you cannot do that. You keep your morals and keep your ears open so the idiot that says something within earshot is giving you valuable intel on their strategy or tries something stupid then your friends are their to back you and witness. This is such old knowledge it must be looked at in at in the era that it was first recorded. I believe also you can then stop them from doing shit in an office miles away where they can cause damage without danger to themselves. Trump kept them close to drop false info so they'd give themselves away. Like telling 10 people a different thing then you know when it hits fake media that person just dropped their cover. You now know who the fuck you can use as a stooge to manipulate the unscene enemy behind the scenes. Now when you have camera's and you realize that fuckface bitch was the leak then you just backtrace their movements and find the path and interactions and at each interaction you if high tech have the audio and they tell you the plan unknowing you even suspect anything and believe you a foolish racist when your the one making them dance right to their arrest and giving up their entire let's say cell in the process. Now kings of old would have to placate lords to make sure they don't sudden rise up. So give them a title and put them in a controlled location and just have someone trustworthy listen and report to you. You then have their strategy and can formulate your own with trusted associates they might not realize are aware also and they are putting the gun to their own head or knife to throat with every lie they tell. Remember 4D chess, you rush you make mistakes but you have fooled your enemy into overconfidence and guided them right into you own trap they don't believe a fool could even think a plan up like that. Then you kill your enemies with low or no losses to your own side and then your associates trust you more when a brother in arms is not dead but is alive to fight another day.