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Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran

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Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran | NPR

The tweet was a snapshot of a physical copy of a satellite image provided to Mr Trump at an intelligence briefing on Friday.

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A commercial satellite image from the company Maxar (bottom); the image tweeted by President Trump (top) appears to be of better quality.

8/30/19
President Trump has tweeted what experts say is almost certainly an image from a classified satellite or drone, showing the aftermath of an accident at an Iranian space facility. "The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during final launch preparations for the Safir [Space Launch Vehicle] Launch at Semnan Launch Site One in Iran," the president said in a tweet that accompanied the image on Friday. "I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One." NPR broke the news of the launch failure on Thursday, using images from commercial satellites that flew over Iran's Imam Khomeini Space Center. Those images showed smoke billowing from the pad. Iran has since acknowledged an accident occurred at the site. Some of the highest-resolution imagery available commercially comes from the company Maxar, whose WorldView-2 satellite sports 46-centimeter resolution.

But the image shown in the president's tweet appears to be of far better quality, says Ankit Panda, an adjunct senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, who specializes in analyzing satellite imagery. "The resolution is amazingly high," says Panda. "I would think it's probably well below 20 centimeters, which is much higher than anything I've ever seen." Panda says that the tweet discloses "some pretty amazing capabilities that the public simply wasn't privy to before this." The Office of the Director of National Intelligence referred questions about the image to the White House, which declined to comment. "We had a photo and I released it, which I have the absolute right to do," the president told reporters late Friday.
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The damage this bozo has done to the US in 2.5 years is incalculable.

Related: Experts say Donald Trump's tweet contained information not meant for the public
 
.... if Obama had done this ......
 
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calamity said:
So, the Right is up in arms over a Comey "leak" that didn't happen. Meanwhile...

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President Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image of Iran

It's interesting how projection works. Is it not?
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BTW, the President can reveal any information he choses.

Does the president have 'the ability to declassify anything at any time'?...We found broad agreement that a president, using powers granted by the Constitution, is able to declassify essentially anything. (rated "mostly-true')
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Does the president have 'the ability to declassify anything at any time'? | PolitiFact

Of course Politifact tries to "nuance" this by adding "just because Trump’s actions were legal doesn’t necessarily mean they were wise."

Bottom line, the President can do what he did and all the moaning about it amounts to a hill of beans. :coffeepap:
 
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Amelia said:
.... if Obama had done this ......
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He did - except he also exposed an ally - when he had Stuxnet details leaked to the press during the election to make himself look tougher. Later they also released classified information on Israel's nuclear program in order to punish the country for voting the wrong way (by reelecting Netanyahu).

Classification Authority derives from Presidential Authority in our system, meaning that Presidents can de or reclassify anything they like. This is often useful when attempting to share information with allies or partners, or as part of a messaging campaign (for example, pictures of Soviet missiles in Cuba under Kennedy, to prove they were there), balancing the intelligence loss against the gain in that other area.

Presidents, being politicians, have a tendency to include personal political benefit in that equation. One notable counter-example might be Nixon, who knew full well that Kennedy was way off base with his talks of the Missile Gap, and kept quiet nonetheless on it.
 
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He's proven not to have enough intelligence to be part of an Intelligence Briefing. Unfortunately there's enough people out there who are very much like him, and see no wrong in anything he says or does. Sad state of affairs for this country, in my opinion. I thought he'd have a babysitter if he was elected, all his babysitters had too much integrity and are no longer involved with this POS. Seems like the overgrown toddler is running roughshod.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran | NPR

The tweet was a snapshot of a physical copy of a satellite image provided to Mr Trump at an intelligence briefing on Friday.

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A commercial satellite image from the company Maxar (bottom); the image tweeted by President Trump (top) appears to be of better quality.



The damage this bozo has done to the US in 2.5 years is incalculable.

Related: Experts say Donald Trump's tweet contained information not meant for the public
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Who says this is a sensitive image?
 
Punkinhead is the best argument yet against space aliens visiting earth. if it had happened, the idiot would have exposed it and blamed Democrats for not keeping us safe from the aliens.
 
Trump only paid attention because it was a picture.....
 
Helix said:
Punkinhead is the best argument yet against space aliens visiting earth. if it had happened, the idiot would have exposed it and blamed Democrats for not keeping us safe from the aliens.
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More specifically, Trump would have blamed Obama. Repetitively, ad nauseum.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Experts do - it's in the headline. ;)
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Oh...yeah...I forgot. Experts. LOL!!

These experts are people who have absolutely no say in what government documents or images should be considered sensitive. They just have their own opinion.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Trump Tweets Sensitive Surveillance Image Of Iran | NPR

The tweet was a snapshot of a physical copy of a satellite image provided to Mr Trump at an intelligence briefing on Friday.

diptych2_custom-4bc2930cfcc026c911831ef828463eb5a65f1078-s800-c85.jpg

A commercial satellite image from the company Maxar (bottom); the image tweeted by President Trump (top) appears to be of better quality.



The damage this bozo has done to the US in 2.5 years is incalculable.

Related: Experts say Donald Trump's tweet contained information not meant for the public
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I believe it is entirely possible leaking photo imagery like this along with tweet info could have been done for intelligence reasons and have accomplished something for security purpose. I don't believe Trump has any such intelligent reasoning capacity nor would our intelligence service trust that Trump could be relied on to effectively pull-off such an effort.

BTW, Trump also has the right to send a nuke to Moscow. Or Beijing. Or Mexico City.
 
Mycroft said:
Oh...yeah...I forgot. Experts. LOL!!

These experts are people who have absolutely no say in what government documents or images should be considered sensitive. They just have their own opinion.
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Yep, but it's an expert opinion - so just take their word for it. ;)
 
Mycroft said:
Who says this is a sensitive image?
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The redacted classification markers say at one point these images were in fact, sensitive information. Satellite imagery in particular is extremely sensitive due to revealing their capabilities, and their orbiting paths. The less opposition like China (who seek to disable our satellites) the better.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, but it's an expert opinion - so just take their word for it. ;)
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Geospatial Intelligence experts are very real. There's people who've spent their Intel careers working exclusively with Talent Keyhole related products like the one Trump declassified and revealed.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, but it's an expert opinion - so just take their word for it. ;)
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I think our major problem is that too many people do "just take their word for it". On every issue.

Nobody thinks for themselves anymore.
 
CMPancake said:
The redacted classification markers say at one point these images were in fact, sensitive information. Satellite imagery in particular is extremely sensitive due to revealing their capabilities, and their orbiting paths. The less opposition like China (who seek to disable our satellites) the better.
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"at one time"
 
CMPancake said:
Geospatial Intelligence experts are very real. There's people who've spent their Intel careers working exclusively with Talent Keyhole related products like the one Trump declassified and revealed.
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Few, if any, are not aware that we have very advanced global imaging and other surveillance capabilities.
 
Brennan and Clapper are "experts" . Enough said.



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Mycroft said:
"at one time"
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Yes, at one time it was declassified. Just because it was declassified by a racist landlord doesn't make it any less sensitive.

ttwtt78640 said:
Few, if any, are not aware that we have very advanced global imaging and other surveillance capabilities.
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Apparently not anymore thanks to Trump callously declassifying information like our satellite capability.
 
CMPancake said:
Yes, at one time it was declassified. Just because it was declassified by a racist landlord doesn't make it any less sensitive.
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You lose.
 
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