This is a BS piece from the word go. The NGA does not declassify documents, they do not have the authority. They can recommend, but that decision is not in their hands.
The article says:
“The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on Friday formally declassified an image then-US President Donald Trump tweeted in 2019 of a highly classified satellite photograph depicting the site of a failed Iranian rocket launch.”
It was not highly classified. I can imagine the amount of reporters there at the time. And even NPR did an article on the explosion August 29, 2019 10:57 AM ET, with picture.
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/29/755406765/iranian-rocket-launch-ends-in-failure-images-show
NPR reported that the NGA declassified the image after a “grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public” in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the radio network.
Pentagon wide review? If the thing was that sensitive, then why did people who did not have the rating or the need to know get access to it?
And why did the picture for the article use a photo of Trump in front of a 2024 campaign commercial? Do the lies never end?
Wy69
“grueling Pentagon-wide review” = An email was sent out to a couple bureaucrats.
“formally declassified an image” = Some bureaucrats checked it off a ‘TO-DO’ list.