The bureau of military intelligence was busy interrogating people.
The officers kept track of the forced confessions using a large number of hidden recording devices.
Unfortunately, a lot of bad things had happened which the Supreme Leader didn’t want to take responsibility for, so there had been a need to arrest a larger than average number of folks who could confess.
With so much to record, the batteries ran out midway through the torture, brutality and data gathering.
This was not discovered until the next day. Who would tell the Supreme Leader?
Would it be an option to all get together and see if the officers could remember what the prisoners had said? Maybe they could write even better versions. They stayed up all night, and managed to pull it off. Well, it was like looking at plastic surgery, you could tell something had been done.
Conclusion: the more you learn, the less you know