I suppose some of it mirrors the way «government testing» such as polygraphs, etc often are just designed to filter out non conforming personalities, even if the tests lack any scientific backing of their effectiveness
NYTimes:
“Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say
New intelligence reporting amounts to the first significant known lead about who was responsible for the attack on the Nord”
Opinions differ if that sounds plausible or is a false lead (honest mistake) or a false flag operation (by Russia) or a double false flag (by the US).