If this was a bungle, it was a bad bungle. This same method could, however, also be used to mislead enemy forces by leaking “secret” information that just plain is not true. Sounds like something James Bond would do, but I don’t know if the current British defence [sic] has the brains.
Good point. I’m usually devious enough to think of that.
In other articles about this incident, they mentioned that not only were British secrets revealed, but also among the improperly redacted info, were US Navy nuke sub procedures.
The Brits were not relishing telling the Navy about their screw up.