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Sorry GOP the Associated Press and Fox News Subpoenas Are Not Scandals
Sorry GOP the Associated Press and Fox News Subpoenas Are Not Scandals
AP, June 29, 2011: Informed sources, citing highly classified documents, have told Associated Press reporters that United States Navy Seal Team 6 has finalized plans for a raid on Osama bin Ladens Abbottabad, Pakistan compound in the neighborhood of Kakul, 40 miles outside Islamabad (see photos and exact address). CIA insiders (weve promised not to identify them) have told Associated Press that the attack is planned for 1AM, May 2nd. Other U.S. forces will be involved with perhaps as many as 75 or more commandos according to our government sources.
Here, thanks for our CI (confidential informant) is how the raid has been drawn up. These are satellite photos and diagrams of the 7 walls of varying height (note the barbed wire) that will likely come into play during the raid. Our sources tell us that two-dozen Seals will be helicoptered into the compound location 2.5 miles from the center of Abbottabad.
Observers will want to track the path (see diagram) to the compound from the staging base in Jalalabad in Afghanistan. AP plans real-time radar tracking as U.S. helicopters approach, much like tracking Santa Claus at Christmas-time. Several types of arms will be utilized, including Heckler and Koch 416 carbines, Heckler and Koch MP7′s and assorted military assault rifles such as AK-47′s. We at AP were further informed that navigators would use Hyperspectral Imagers. This piece of equipment is currently classified, but weve managed to get Patent Office copies from an unidentified employee, that reveal the Imagers inner-workings. Reference the end of this article.
Occupants of the compound will want to be on the lookout for 2 U.S. helicopters that will hover directly above the courtyard and the roof as Seals lower ropes upon which to climb into the facility. Residents should be forewarned that the CIA plans to cut power in the area, leaving the compound in the dark while the American forces will have Panoramic Night-Vision Goggles. The hovers should happen shortly after 1 AM. Entry will then be forced and any resistance will be responded to with deadly force. It is preferable that bin Laden be captured alive, but as our CIA source told us, If he gets nicked, he gets nicked.
Ive written these ridiculous fictionalized paragraphs to point out just how absurd and fictionalized the current AP and Fox News scandals really are. There is no scenario where the above story would find its way onto a media platform, pre-raid. And thats the point of the government investigating the logistics of leaking a different incident involving a terrorist and heavily laden with classified information and reported by the Associated Press when the long-standing news organization should have known better.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/gop-press-fox-news-subpoenas-scandals.html
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Sorry GOP the Associated Press and Fox News Subpoenas Are Not Scandals (Original Post)
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