This is all a bit wild-eyed, but the part that stuck out to me was the author’s assertions about what is needed to shoot down a Chinook. Chinooks are big flying buses. They aren’t armored, they aren’t particularly fast, and they’re really loud (easy target). It wouldn’t take anything more than it would to take down any other big cargo helicopter to shoot down a Chinook. Taking out either of the two rotors would do it easily.
Yes, I think she overestimates the importance of the Corsi book. But Donald Trump had made it necessary (or perhaps made it possible) for Obama to come up with something.
You are right that a Chinook is the wrong kind of helicopter to send into a situation where enemies could easily shoot it down. But that, in turn, raises the question, why on earth did they send in a large Seal team in a Chinook for an operation like this? Military commanders sometimes do stupid things, but I have to wonder about that—or about the way the investigation so quickly exonerated them.