Are politics to blame once again?

Former Ontario lieutenant-governor James Bartleman appears to have sat on a 22-year-old secret.
When Mr. Bartleman dropped his bombshell last week, it sent ripples of disbelief across the country, while triggering personal memories.
I covered the Air India crash that claimed 329 lives. Most were new Canadians from India.
It was a sad story and it did not mention Mr. Bartleman.
At the time, the government insisted police and security officers had no advance warning that a specific flight was in danger. 
I can't help but wonder how the families of the dead are taking the recent development — Mr. Bartleman, a career diplomat and former intelligence officer, has testified he knew federal authorities were warned that Air India flight would be the target of a terrorist's bomb less than a week before the flight went down in 1985 off the coast of Ireland.
There were no survivors. 
Mr. Bartleman testified that as director general of intelligence of External Affairs, he came across an intelligence brief the week of June 18, 1985. The brief indicated the airline, departing from Toronto, would be attacked on either June 22 or June 23.
Taking it serious, Mr. Bartleman approached a senior RCMP officer with the brief. Apparently, the unnamed senior officer told Bartleman he didn't need him telling him how to do his job.
I guess the chain of command rattled loud enough that Mr. Bartleman dropped the issue. The next thing he knew, an airplane full of people fell from the sky.
Excuse me for asking, but why didn't Mr. Bartleman take his tail out from between his legs and immediately send the following message to the premier of Ontario, the prime minister of Canada, the minister of External Affairs and anybody else on his who's who list.
Dear fellow important person,
I recognize you are a very busy and important person, but something's nagging at me.
A few minutes ago, I told a senior member of the RCMP that I have good reason to believe a plane load of Canadians are about to be blown out of the sky.
The RCMP guy who, incidentally, thinks he's right up there with oxygen, got all uppity, charged me with trying to tell him how to do his job and suggested I stop sticking my nose into his business.
Since I am the lieutenant-governor of Ontario and the director of intelligence, I kinda thought terrorist threats fell into my camp. Of course, I don't want to ruffle any feathers at the RCMP, but I find plane crashes upsetting and kinda though you might feel the same. 
Your buddy always,
James