Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite, declassified document shows

[coldjoint]

Feel better now, cj? Is your insecurity so strong that you need to survive on put-downs like an emotion-sucking vampire?

I always feel good. I do or say nothing to make me feel bad. You can't say that.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I always feel good. I do or say nothing to make me feel bad. You can't say that.

Ah, Publilius Syrus proves himself correct again: In nil sapiendo vita iucundissima est
I have no doubt you truly believe your statement, including the mind-reading part.

 

[Mason Michaels]

we have an innocent until proven guilty system, snot-sucker.

That doesn't change the facts

 

[Monad Portal]

That doesn't change the facts

the fact is that the president has broad declassification powers.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

the fact is that the president has broad declassification powers.

True, but there's a process. He can't just wave his micro-wand at a pile of classified documents and declare them personal property.

 

[Monad Portal]

True, but there's a process. He can't just wave his micro-wand at a pile of classified documents and declare them personal property.

yes, he can.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

yes, he can.

The DOJ is going to 'splain to him why he can't.

 

[Monad Portal]

The DOJ is going to 'splain to him why he can't.

I doubt it.

there is no documented process for the president.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I doubt it.

there is no documented process for the president.

Care to make a wager on it?

 

[Monad Portal]

Care to make a wager on it?

no.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

no.

You don't like losing bets, eh? Good. Me neither.

 

[Mason Michaels]

yes, he can.

President is not a Fuhrer,much as you right wing cocksuckers want Republican Presidents to be.

 

[Nordberg]

the fact is that the president has broad declassification powers.

Not that broad. And there are procedures and paperwork he has to follow. Trump did none of that. He was also not president when he claimed a blanket declassification. you are as usual ,wrong.

 

[Into the Night]

Three years ago, Donald Trump tweeted an image that left intelligence experts gobsmacked.

The picture was of a rocket that had exploded on a launch pad deep inside of Iran. It was so crisp, that some initially thought it may not have been taken by a satellite.

"This picture is so exquisite, and you see so much detail," says Jeffrey Lewis, who studies satellite imagery at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. "At first, I thought it must have been taken by a drone or something."

But aerospace experts quickly determined it was photographed using one of America's most prized intelligence assets: a classified spacecraft called USA 224 that is widely believed to be a multibillion-dollar KH-11 reconnaissance satellite.

Now, three years after Trump's tweet, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has formally declassified the original image. The declassification, which came as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by NPR, followed a grueling Pentagon-wide review to determine whether the briefing slide it came from could be shared with the public.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137...m-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows

So?

 

[Into the Night]

The fact that you cannot grasp the significance tells us you are delusional.

There isn't any.

 

[Into the Night]

It's astounding that I have to explain such a simple concept to you.

Trump tweeted a highly classified image to the entire world, including our enemies.

It was declassified.

 

[Into the Night]

A President is not the Fuhrer,he is the elected servant of We the People, and is subject to the laws and Constitution!

Trump did not do anything unconstitutional here.

 

[Into the Night]

Have you used it? They blank out areas that they do not want you to see.

So?

 

[Into the Night]

It's truly amazing that he thinks it's the same thing as Google Maps!!!! I mean really all their satellites do is just take snaps directly down so all we see are roofs!!!

He never said it was. Word stuffing.
Satellites can take oblique images with no problem.

 

[Into the Night]

I know you are very smart so you might have missed the key elements of the image.

...such as?