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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 08:56 PM Aug 2019

WTF, MEDIA? President Sh!thead Just Accidentally Tweeted A TOP SECRET Satellite Photo

...of an Iranian missile launchpad, and YOU'RE having a cow over Joe Biden confusing a Bronze Star with a Silver Star?

What the fuck is WRONG with you people!?






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WTF, MEDIA? President Sh!thead Just Accidentally Tweeted A TOP SECRET Satellite Photo (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Aug 2019 OP
Once again, if Obama did this, all hell would be breaking loose from the GOP Blue Owl Aug 2019 #1
For good reason. yardwork Aug 2019 #2
It's incredible. We're now into the SECOND DAY of the MSM talking about Biden conflating TrollBuster9090 Aug 2019 #3
Neither one is particularly newsworthy. Biden told a good inspirational story. Hoyt Aug 2019 #4
K and R, This is the top story on tonights NY Times. Stuart G Aug 2019 #5
He seems to be hung up on the "which I have the absolute right to do . . . stuff" Haggis for Breakfast Aug 2019 #10
At least it wasn't SCVDem Aug 2019 #6
No big deal... BadGimp Aug 2019 #7
Great Toon, Thank You for posting it...no text. Stuart G Aug 2019 #8
"Accidentally" isn't the best word choice. nt greyl Aug 2019 #9
Media: the president can declassify whatever he wants to, so when he tweeted the photo Karadeniz Aug 2019 #11
It's not that he CAN declassify it, it's WHAT he chooses to declassify. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2019 #14
Putin chose well. dalton99a Aug 2019 #12
Exactly how I feel many times. triron Aug 2019 #13
But her private e-mail server. Mc Mike Aug 2019 #15
That was no accident mercuryblues Aug 2019 #16
Our republican owned newspaper made a 'both sides' comparison of Trump and Biden. how absurd. triron Aug 2019 #17
Yeah my sister pulled this yesterday with 'they all lie' and I said no we are at over 12K UniteFightBack Aug 2019 #18

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
3. It's incredible. We're now into the SECOND DAY of the MSM talking about Biden conflating
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 09:14 PM
Aug 2019

conflating two different war stories that ACTUALLY HAPPENED; while Trump's insane, surrealist, stream of consciousness lies are so numerous that the MSM just writes them off as the dog-bites-man story of the day. "BIDEN said something that was SLIGHTLY wrong, so there's our man bites DOG story!"

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. Neither one is particularly newsworthy. Biden told a good inspirational story.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:16 PM
Aug 2019

trump is a security risk for sure, among many other detestable things, but I'm not sure there was any disclosed in the satellite photo that could hurt or compromise us.

Stuart G

(38,427 posts)
5. K and R, This is the top story on tonights NY Times.
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:21 PM
Aug 2019

Last edited Fri Aug 30, 2019, 10:57 PM - Edit history (1)

https://www.nytimes.com/


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.”

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Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
10. He seems to be hung up on the "which I have the absolute right to do . . . stuff"
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 11:43 PM
Aug 2019

Even when he doesn't. Let's remember the other times he's done something similar, like spreading classified documents all over the tables at Marm-ma-loco, when PM Shinzo Abe was there last year for a meet and great with golf club members mulling around the tables. Or the loose-lips comments he's let slip. I think he does it to be the Big Wheel Guy.

What he fails to realise is that his antics reveal things to our more hostile frenemies what we have and what we are capable of obtaining, whether via military satLink or high-resolution drone craft. He keeps giving away our aces, letting them read our cards.
Right now there have got to be some high-ranking DoD types grabbing a third martini or changing their skivvies over yet another unforced, yet damaging, error.

Karadeniz

(22,514 posts)
11. Media: the president can declassify whatever he wants to, so when he tweeted the photo
Fri Aug 30, 2019, 11:44 PM
Aug 2019

he ipso facto declassified it. The president cannot leak classified information.

So...if I know a humiliating secret about you and I tell people, I didn't betray your secret because by divulging it, it's not a secret.

14. It's not that he CAN declassify it, it's WHAT he chooses to declassify.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 07:06 AM
Aug 2019

In the instance of the photo of the destroyed rocket launcher, our enemies now can estimate the resolution of our surveillance imagery, and they know we can get a camera over any place in the world within hours. Those are two big gets for enemy intelligence.

In return, President Shit-for-Brains gets to show off what he knows, while causing our intelligence agencies to reevaluate -- for about the hundredth time -- what they reveal in their PDB. I doubt they'll ever include a high-resolution image again. Probably they'll get one from Google Earth and slap a "Top Secret - Eyes Only" stamp on it.

In fact, here's the latest imagery of Iran's advanced transportation system that's going to be in Monday's PDB.

mercuryblues

(14,531 posts)
16. That was no accident
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 09:22 AM
Aug 2019

I want to know what device he used to post that tweet.

If he used his phone he had to send the pic to it, then tweet. If he used a PC, what one? The president has a PC that receives top secret info, did he tweet the pic from that one? The embedded info on a pic? did he bother to strip thatout?

triron

(22,003 posts)
17. Our republican owned newspaper made a 'both sides' comparison of Trump and Biden. how absurd.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 01:45 PM
Aug 2019

Yet this is the 'twilight zone' we live in.

 

UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
18. Yeah my sister pulled this yesterday with 'they all lie' and I said no we are at over 12K
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 01:48 PM
Aug 2019

lies for this fucker and it is being documented and recorded whether you know it's going on or not.

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