Well, for one, getting a foreign sub 35 miles offshore. This isn't ICE, or even Obama we are talking about but the US Navy and NSA. Have you ever heard of Ivy Bells, that was 30 years ago when the biggest computer the NSA had was less powerful than my Droid smartphone. Today, DIP (Defense Imagery Program) could show you a sardine swimming in those waters if you wanted.
Oh for Heavens’ Sake!
Is this silly debate really going to be another 100+ comments on a thread?
You are a patient debater?
Think about it. The US is not omnipotent, especially with the espionage of the past 25 years and the treason of the Clinton administration.
But, are our surveillance services continuously monitoring every cubic inch of our territorial waters? Dunno.
Do our foreign adversaries have stealth capabilities sufficient enough to creep that close to our shores unnoticed and undetected? Dunno.
Could our surveillance services have been fully apprised and aware of this sub, and not set off the alarm bells while they watched it, for strategic reasons? Dunno.
Could our military services be so degraded that this incursion into our territorial waters happened without us even knowing about it, until the big "Uh-Oh"? Dunno.
I really want to believe that there's nothing to this story, but there are just too many things about it that add up, and too many that don't. As I said before - Dunno.