A judge ordered the Pentagon to give access to reporters, unescorted. This may be the FO phase of that silly ruling.
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“New Air Force One Lacks Defensive Countermeasures of Previous Model, Officials Say”
Could some of the old counter measures been replaced with new better ones?
Well unless the reporters were allowed access to classified materials in order to write the report I honestly can’t see Trump’s DOJ is pursuing them.
I seriously doubt the problem is lack of defensive measures.
IMHO, it’s more likely that someone dropped the ball and allowed the plane to be serviced by Turkish technicians, and they just didn’t know the condition of the airplane, and out of an abundance of caution, they advised the President to use another airplane with a known service history.
It’s like losing track of a piece of evidence in a criminal case.