WakeForestRanger
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So he snapped a picture from an intelligence briefing and tweeted it and nobody stopped him?
I hope hope hope that this got the OK from someone in the intelligence community.
I don't. Two dumbasses is worse than one.
But the quality of the photograph quickly raised the eyebrows of national security experts, who say that images this clear are rarely made public.
“I’m not supposed to see stuff this good. He’s not supposed to share it. I’ve honestly never seen an image this sharp,” said Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network and director of the Datayo Project at the One Earth Future Foundation.
Hanham suspected the shot was taken from a high-altitude aerial vehicle using tracking technology, such as an RC-135S Cobra Ball or a similar aircraft.
“This will have global repercussions,” said Joshua Pollack, a nuclear proliferation expert and editor of the Nonproliferation Review.
“The utter carelessness of it all,” Pollack said. “So reckless.”
On Twitter?
Ultimately, no different than “unnamed defense officials” providing quotes to the Post.
Sometimes there’s a strategic benefit to letting others know your capabilities. Not saying thats necessarily what happened here, but it’s a possibility.
Have unnamed defense officials snitched about our drone cameras in Iranian air space.
An astronomer that works for the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy was able to use the image Trump tweeted and identified the exact US spy satellite that took it.
They’ve talked about our cyber attack that shut down Iran’s military comms.