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Mayday mayday. Mayday mayday. Olympus has fallen.
Mayday mayday. Mayday maydayMalcolm Nance, a former U.S. Navy intelligence specialist with experience in Iraq told Newsweek on Wednesday that posting the video was a break from traditional procedures that are usually strictly enforced and designed to safeguard the identities of U.S. special operation forces, especially when deployed to a combat zone.
“Operational security is the most important aspect of personnel deployments. The real names, faces, and identities, of personnel involved in special operations or activities, are usually a closely held secret in a combat zone,” Nance said. “Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group. There would be no denying who you are and what you do.”
Contacted by Newsweek, the Pentagon referred questions to the White House communications team.
Naval Special Warfare Command and the White House did not return a request for comment from Newsweek as of publication.
“Operational security is the most important aspect of personnel deployments. The real names, faces, and identities, of personnel involved in special operations or activities, are usually a closely held secret in a combat zone,” Nance said. “Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group. There would be no denying who you are and what you do.”
Contacted by Newsweek, the Pentagon referred questions to the White House communications team.
Naval Special Warfare Command and the White House did not return a request for comment from Newsweek as of publication.
Mayday mayday. Mayday mayday.
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Just how many cultivated assets were compromised or killed because GWB & Scooter Libby blackmailed her husband, Joe Wilson, we will never know.
You're so adept at it.
Over.
And over.
And over... 
Godamit! And then he gives the troops a speech telling them the world thinks they’re suckers!!
That boy just ain’t right in the head. We really need to have him put out of our misery. 
