Anyone who would advocate for this strategy against any SME is a moron anyway.

It's like watching someone who's expecting a knife fight walk in with a concealed handgun only to be immediately confronted with a tank.

The email is usually an attempt to not waste time in the meeting and get shit done. Leadership always favors those who can make it so. Anyone who stalls for time or hides information will always look bad. I don't get why people so desperately try anyway.

Most of these strange gambits in office politics are a losing game for the inept and inexperienced. One can only wonder why we keep pretending like there even is such a "game" of office politics.