Posted on 12/27/2018 3:55:28 AM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD
President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet with American forces serving in a combat zone for the first time since being elected to office. While the commander-in-chief can declassify information, usually the specific special operations unit is not revealed to the American public, especially while U.S. service members are deployed. Official photographs and videos typically blur the individual faces of special operation forces, due to the sensitive nature of their job. The president’s video posted Wednesday did not shield the faces of special operation forces. Current and former Defense Department officials told Newsweek that information concerning what units are deployed and where is almost always classified and is a violation of operational security. Trump flew to Iraq late Christmas Day after facing a barrage of negative headlines over the holiday season amid a partial government shutdown. The president and first lady Melania Trump posed for pictures with U.S. service members at al-Asad air base in Iraq.
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Good point. A number of these SEAL men also ran mouth. Fox news had them on.
There’s a long clip of Extortion17 on YouTube of the families of the ambush
It’s well worth the viewing time to find out what members of that team told their families about DC leaks screwing up their missions..
This constant gotcha carp is just aggravating.
It says more about the Mean Girl Media than anything they write/say.
POTUS is not stupid. In his former life he was known for both his private intel gathering and personal security forces. The very fact that he does not do email or most social media except Twitter points to his awareness of cyber insecurity. This is why they had to infiltrate, manufacture scandal and wiretap. I bet he is the most proficient POTUS ever in opsec. He’s always emphasized not broadcasting intent, means, timeline or goal unless it furthered his end game.
He knew enough to have the WH not only swept, but torn apart before taking up residence. He said publicly he knew he was being surveilled before the extent was uncovered and published. Of course, he was accused on paranoia.
But, yeah, riiiiiiiiiiight: he put his military security at risk out of ignorance and narcissism. Oh, and the SEALs just allowed it to happen because.....
SMH
See post#22
They want to make sure everyone notices now. This is akin to treason in and of itself. Have they no shame?
I was in both the Army and the Foreign Service and those three letter agencies were not there either....
When Trump declassifies the Pedo-files on folks throughout the world, there will be a special place in Hell for those in the media who are both a part and preening advocate of perversions.
The sodomites at Newsweak didn’t have a problem publishing the video.
No, they didn’t. Nor were they concerned that the vice president didn’t know that “SEAL Team 6” hasn’t been their designation for over 20 years.
Suddenly the media cares! HYPOCRITES!
Are you speaking about the VN era chopper that was flown by reserve or NG pilots and was shot down with SEAL’s on board?
I didn’t see nuffin’. There were seals in the pics? ;-)
Was the MSM apoplectic when Team Obama placed nearly 20 SEAL team members on ONE NON-MILITARY-GRADE HELICOPTER and sent them to their DEATHS in Afghanistan?
Eyep...the one that had...just before lift off ...7 afghan get off
.and 7 get aboard...was never explain why the change....PLUS they had a muzzie Iman give services over dead Americans
Diagonal stripes. Go figger.
The OIC/CO/CG there should be in Leavenworth.
I thought the Obama admin already spilled thee beans on every government employee, military include, when they had that major hack into everyone’s personal file a few years ago, presumably by the Chinese...
You are correct. Anybody with a security clearance in the last 10 years had their entire life “file” breached.
Bookmarking.
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