Military botches release of video seized in Yemen raid

[erpowers]

Source: CNN

The US military is scrambling to explain an embarrassing mix-up after it released video obtained from Sunday's raid in Yemen that turned out to have already been published online.

A military spokesman acknowledged it was released without having been thoroughly analyzed.

The video was meant to demonstrate the value of the weekend raid whose stated aim was to recover key intelligence about al Qaeda. But the footage released Friday morning actually consisted of video that was previously available to the public.

The video was pulled because "we didn't want to make it appear that we were trying to pass off old video," said US Central Command spokesman Col. John Thomas. The mistake was due "to our lack of having time to properly analyze it."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-videos/index.html

[lark]

1. Competency has no place in the drumpf administration.

It's all fuck up all the time.

[bigbrother05]

6. 2 weeks in and W has already moved off the bottom rung

[lark]

12. I would have thought that no one could ever be worse than Darth/Dimson.

I was wrong, Drumpf is so much worse, it's truly scary. Drumpf will destroy the entire world if allowed.

[bigbrother05]

2. OMG, they took out the Yemen Blockbuster!

Would be humorous except for the dead folks

eta: hope they got something we don't already have

[underpants]

5. That is funny

[Lindsay]

3. "didn't want to make it appear that we were trying to pass off old video"

meaning, "Didn't think we'd get caught passing off old video."

[underpants]

4. Boy that really stepped on their John Thomas there

It has to be said

[Achilleaze]

7. The Illegitimate KGOP is not just evil-spirited, it's also incompetent

sad

[procon]

8. The military was "adamant there was no pressure to release anything."

The White House says they know nothing about the nine year old video being passed off for the January raid in Yemen. Are we supposed to believe that this lie is any different than all the other lies coming from this administration?

[Augiedog]

9. Next week they will try to figure out which end the bullets come out of a gun. Good luck with that.

[brooklynite]

10. BREAKING NEWS: The US Marine Corps has announced a successful raid in Libya...

[xor]

13. hehe... If there was a 'like' on comments, I would have liked your post.

It made me laugh.

[Lucinda]

11. TY KNR

[hexola]

14. Their explanation just doesn't make sense...

And neither did Spicer today at the Press Briefing

The video didn't make itself...how many people involved here - too many for it to be a mistake!