Bastard Bush's Bitch Blair Busted?

they do this so that when it's leaked it'd look as if it's a crap fake.

I think "need[s] to know" is a well-estbalished bureacratic phrase. When I was working for a contractor that worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, I remember my supervisor or me having to submit something that said "[my name] needs to know" (a phrase I remember just kind of hanging there like that, without it saying what I needed to know, though that was probably said elsewhere).