Posted on 05/07/2011 5:10:37 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Navy SEAL Helmet Cams: Obama Watched bin Laden Raid Video Ian Yarett Fri May 6, 10:20 pm ET
NEW YORK – Navy SEAL Helmet Cams: Obama Watched bin Laden Raid VideoObama and officials in the White House Situation Room were able to watch the raid against bin Laden live, the Washington Post confirms. Ian Yarett on how helmet-cam combat video works. Plus, full coverage of bin Laden.
It was a picture that caught everyone’s attention. Sitting in the White House situation room, President Obama and his team appear to be breathlessly monitoring the raid that located and killed Osama bin Laden. But the image left many wondering: was the president actually seeing the operation unfold in real-time on the screen in front of him?
In a White House briefing on Monday, counterterrorism chief John Brennan said that he and the rest of Obama’s team were “able to monitor the situation in real time” and were given “regular updates” as the operation proceeded, but wouldn’t say whether there was a live video feed. Even though the government won’t confirm that the SEALs were wearing cameras, a military spokesman tells The Daily Beast that video is a routine part of many combat missions.
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Betya the video was slick-willie cam and hitlery saw huma pulling a lewinsky.
Hillary looks as if she’s stuffing her face with popcorn.
Osama tried to shoot all of the Navy SEALs a la the final scene in "Scarface." Osama was taking a nap in his bed and they shot him. Panetta drank a root beer. He drank a Ginger Ale. They got updates on Twitter. Obama orchestrated the entire operation himself even while he was a Community Organizer in Chicago. Osama just posted his latest status on Facebook.
And you believe that? She’s stifling an allergy. That looks like a sneeze. OK, I’m a believer. NOT. What a freaking joke.
It is probably common practice for Gov agencies to watch video from very small cameras. The rf signals from the cameras are pretty weak, almost always in the milliwatt range. The low power is to increase battery life. The signal is picked up by the large NRO satellites in orbit 22,000 miles above the equator. Even at a range of 22,000 miles the weak transmitters put a huge signal into the 300+ foot diameter dish antennas on those NRO birds. To give you an idea of the signal gathering power of these big NRO satellites they could pick up the weak signals from the Voyager spacecraft that has left the solar system...if you pointed them in that direction.
If the seal team was using these types of cameras (and I can’t imagine they were not) then each camera would be on a slightly different frequency and would be a separate live feed. So for all of them to go dark at the same time the only explanation would be that the Osama complex was constructed with a copper mesh liner in the walls and ceilings. This is routinely done where it is important for there to be no rf leakage.
Zero rf leakage form a home that size is a dead giveaway that something is going on in there. It’s like a wanted man wearing a sack on his head so the cops won’t recognize him.
Three floors worth of ordinary construction materials would not in any way hamper the reception of the cameras rf feed.
Only the tiniest fraction of the rf would need to escape to give a good signal into the satellite.
http://www.dailywireless.org/2009/01/15/geosynch-spies/
Did anyone else but me think Obama never sounded stupider then when he said “And WHEN I GAVE THE ORDER, they were ready”
He sounded like someone desperately trying to convince us he actually did ive the order when he didnt
I think some of the adults in the room are pulling rank on him
What’s he gonna do?
Even Leon Panetta is not so stupid as to let Osama get away again...
There’s now not a single detail of the entire incident for which we don’t have multiple versions.
Bin Laden got shot, and WE got the 72 versions.
Are we even sure now that this went down in Pakistan? Maybe it was in Queens, New York.
The bummer looked like he was peaking from under a bed. One brave guy.
Biden fell asleep and they couldn’t hear over the snoring.
The trigger pullers had:
1. the best info
2. their lives at stake
3. no political ambitions
4. little ability or desire to destroy careers of others
The politicians had:
1. very sketch info
2. their drinks/chairs at stake
3. all the political ambition in the world
4. boundless willingness to destroy careers
There were about 100 plausible technical reasons why comms could go down in an instant —with so much at stake would the operators really cut the NECKTIES in on this rapidly evolving stuff...?
I mean the President staked HUGE parts of his candidacy on the notion of giving Terrorists powers of discovery, hearings in US courts....you can be sure if OBL had been taken alive that a legal defense would be to compromise as many sources and methods as possible....
What operator on planet earth would not end up whacking out OBL when —whoops!— communication goes down?
I wouldn’t blame them and if they did, GOOD..!!
LOL!! Unless you immediately threaten to sue me, I'm putting that on my tagline for this month.
And he looks like he just came in from the woodshed. The man looks very disturbed.
other sources claim the weather was just fine during the previous day's "weather delay."
I’m sorry, but I just can’t believe that a forty minute action at the compound was programmed. That seems much too long for a bang-bang operation.
When are they going to admit that the Keystone Kop-in-Chief messed his drawers?
LOL!
I really, really, really, really, doubt it, when they turned on the fuzz machine to stop phones from working it would also produce fuzz on the digital cameras.
Wasn't a President driven from office over an 18 1/2 minute gap in a tape?
I know this sounds very conspiratorial, but...
Either they really are this inept, or really bad liars, or maybe they are just trying to wear us down and become apathetic and tune it all out.
I am thinking more and more that it just may be the latter.
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