we are at war with 3 countries
back in the day...’loose lips sink ships’ meant you did not tell the deployment of your forces....so if it is common knowlege and linkable..then someone either knows better or just does not give a rats @$$...and considering who the commander and chief is...I would say, the latter.
Go to the official Navy website and it'll tell you which carriers and major amphibious ships are in port, which are at sea, and which are deployed. It's done so for years.
Being that we don’t have cloaking devices for our ships just yet, the fact that it sticks out like a sore thumb on the horizon was not missed by the Sudanese pirates and the rest of the ships traveling that corridor and they all have radios.
To make another point, the fact that we learn it is on station with an existing carrier already under a certain amount of surveillance by our “friends” in the neighborhood, I’m sure it is no surprise to them as well. They did keep it quiet that it was moving and the reason for the move so let them wonder what is up, especially Achmadinejad.