In a Tweet Taunting Iran, Trump Reveals a Classified Image
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Source: New York Times
President Trump's message was unusual because the Iranian government had neither acknowledged the accident nor blamed the United States.
He defended using the high-resolution image of the disaster in the tweet: "We had a photo and I released it, which I have the absolute right to do."
(high resolution classified picture at link below, it is now on the front page of the NY Times)
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/middleeast/trump-iran-missile-explosion-satellite-image.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
PatrickforO
(14,516 posts)When will it end?
2020?
YES!
Stuart G
(38,363 posts)It is not OK to release a classified picture. (it is classified for a reason)
RockRaven
(14,783 posts)Whether or not he has a legal right to do so is immaterial to that fact.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Seriously, can this idiot go a full hour without fucking something up entirely? God, he makes Warren Harding look like a fucking success story.
Stuart G
(38,363 posts)But Trump refuses to listen to anyone. That is why ..your quote, "can this idiot go a full hour without fucking something up entirely?." is totally true !!! He can't go even an hour without fucking up.
Donald Trump doesn't got a clue what is good for the U.S.A. or even what is good for the ..".Trump Brand." The Trump name will always be associated with the idea of "total stupidity."
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I mentioned Warren Harding. That administration was a train wreck. Grant? Nixon? This mess supersedes even those administrations.
Stuart G
(38,363 posts)Bush Jr. started a war on a lie, "weapons of mass destruction" That war in Iraq ...killed over 5000 U.S. soldiers..and over 100,000 people in Iraq. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Killing people on a lie is far worse than showing a picture of a missile base...
Also, Bush Jr. did not kill a few people on that lie.. One hundred and five thousand is not a few..105,000. And there were far more than that. My numbers are an underestimate of what really happened.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I do agree, Shrub was also an exceptionally inept president. And, Shrub & Co should be in jail for their crimes.
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)lonely bird
(1,642 posts)If the black guy had done this?
area51
(11,868 posts)benld74
(9,889 posts)Who gave it to him??
progree
(10,864 posts)But the image shown in the president's tweet appears to be of far better quality, says Ankit Panda, an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, who specializes in analyzing satellite imagery. "The resolution is amazingly high," says Panda. "I would think it's probably below well below 20 centimeters, which is much higher than anything I've ever seen."
Panda says that the tweet discloses "some pretty amazing capabilities that the public simply wasn't privy to before this."
It was not entirely clear where the president's photo came from. Panda believes it was likely taken by a classified U.S. satellite. But Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network at the One Earth Foundation, believes that the resolution is so high, it may be beyond the physical limits at which satellites can operate. "The atmosphere is thick enough that after somewhere around 11 to nine centimeters, things get wonky," she says.
That could mean it was taken by a drone or spy plane, though such a vehicle would be violating Iranian airspace. Hanham also says that the European company Airbus has been experimenting with drones that fly so high, they are technically outside the atmosphere and thus operating outside of national boundaries. But she says she doesn't know whether the U.S. has such a system.
But there's a redaction that might indicate ... on the other hand ...
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)His mind doesn't rise much above "Ooooh, cool picture. Must tweet."
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)Secret space plane?
https://www.newser.com/story/279742/mysterious-space-plane-on-mysterious-mission-breaks-its-own-record.html
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SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)tRUMP:
I had a conversation with Putin and I told him EVERYTHING....and I had an absolute right to do it.
Feel free to substitute any name you like: MBS, Jared, Donnie Jr., Ivanka, my stock broker.....
Omaha Steve
(99,072 posts)Dupe. See earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142362031