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"'He was getting literally a bird's eye view of some of the most sensitive US intelligence on Iran... And the first thing he seemed to want to do was to blurt it out over Twitter...'"
"Trump first saw the image as part of a daily intelligence briefing on the morning after the Iranian launch failure... President Trump asked to keep a copy of the photo, which was from a KH-11 series satellite. An hour later, he sent it out to more than 60 million followers on Twitter."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tweeted-classified-satellite-image-of-iran-former-officials-fallout-100003879.html
Userlivewire
What’s the big deal? Everyone knows the US has satellites that can see every inch of the Earth at any time, live.
EccentricNut
SmokyDoggg
ThatHappensToMeSometimes
I love this so much. Thank you.
DeadWhiteMale
That crazy man never should have had access to it even though he was president.
Markuspsyches
At the very least not allowed to have his phone in any room with classified info, and not allowed to take any material out of that room.
EroticZombiePants
I'm just surprised he posted it publicly instead of selling that picture to Iran.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Iran woudn't have paid for it. The Saudis on the other hand...
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
I remember reading somewhere (probably here) that the proof that there is alien life is that Trump would have told us if there were.
zanaria
The fact that him and a bunch of GOP are not in jail for inciting an insurrection after nearly 2 years is just mind boggling...
NonstopRampage
America was always that ONE country where I kinda expected traitors and terrorists to be forced into hiding or leaving, by enraged patriots.
zanaria
Instead they embrace terrorists and want to vote them into office...
NonstopRampage
The funny thing is, they *think* it's their right. They *think* it isn't something that has to be punished, with extreme prejudice.
MentalFest
You can literally just commit espionage in public now huh
doobiedoobop
He just couldn't resist the chance to play the coy mob boss sympathising with the victims of the horrible thing he did to fuck them over.
joshybones
but her emails
Wolfdens
He also told the Russians in the oval office where British spies were based in Syria leading to a mass pull out and presumably death of many
guitarfourtysix
We didn't damage your missile site. To prove it, I am providing a spy picture of your damaged missile site. that we just happen to have.
DJOldguy
"National Security be damned Look at ME, I know shit! And that is far more important!" DJT ex-Prez
UlfricStormtoke
How did I not hear about this before?
Justtoberight
Stupid or in sb pocket?
judasgrowley
The treason aside. I feel like he’s telling us that the US was involved.
MaximilianShade
The bit kicking in for you where every accusation is a confession for these people? And why on earth would a normal person say it that way?
Pheehelm
Treason's the wrong word for this. That term is strictly limited by the Constitution.
tellmeimcute
What about all the CIA agents he got murdered or simply blew their cover?
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Someone call Bolin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtzWDxUEtE
sonofcyrus138
BUT HER EMAILS!
FlyingTigerRose
Ho. Ly. Shit.
LefthandedLink
And somehow, SOMEHOW, still has ardent fans in the intelligence community. Fuckin bonkers...
doobiedoobop
They'll have received their Faux News orders to switch their fanboi allegiance to DeSantis by now.
drcookieninja
A lot of racist hornets in that nest
darkwood1971
burpwind
Traitor. Shoot him.
ciscoxing626
If the system worked properly he'd have faced a firing squad by now......
LongJuan
It's ok, he declassified them just by thinking about it!
KrondorMocker
2ndrook
Aww look at the cute little maga downvote. Lol
2ndrook
?gimme another maga’t.
RG1980g1mp
even assuming he could, i doubt he has the ability to think.
TheElusiveEnchilada
KrondorMocker
https://imgur.com/KnLBcYY
certainlynotaserialkiller
Fun fact: nasa got a spare KH-11 and they put it in space with a few tweaks and called it Hubble.
RobotMenace
KH-11s are *believed* to look like Hubble because they were launched in similar containers. But it's not a KH-11. WFIRST was the one built>
RobotMenace
>on a modified recon satellite donated by the NRO. Hubble would have been a shit spy satellite and spy satellites would be terrible for >
RobotMenace
>Hubble's uses.
Solusphere
A good breakdown of exactly why: https://what-if.xkcd.com/32/
certainlynotaserialkiller
And yes, that is why hubble fits prefectly in the space shuttle, its cargo bay was sized for the KH-11 sattelite series.
Pokegeologist
So wait, if the Hubble was a spare, just how many of these things were there?
certainlynotaserialkiller
Few dozen. Many are still on operation or replaced by newer NROL built ones.
RobotMenace
19 have flown. Last one this year. 1 failed to reach orbit. 12 have already decayed. They've been in use since 76 so aren't even the best>
RobotMenace
>or most plentiful. But they're good enough for lots of things.
Fivegoldentoques
Proof that there are no aliens at area 51, cause if he had known there where, he wouldn't have kept it to himself
jonbenwaa
I dunno - I feel like he caught wind of something and that's why the abrupt creation of the "Space Force" division
Onlyhereforthelaughs
The sad truth.
RecurringNightmare
nah they just didnt tell him...pres is only informed on a need-to-know basis...like, this is quite realistic: https://youtu.be/yZk9abWlK5c
EroticZombiePants
They moved pretty much everything out of Area 51 right before they went public that it actually existed.
Gryphonosiris
Or they just never told him.
TA2019
I thought an article came out that confirmed white house officials didn't tell him certain sensitive details?
Gryphonosiris
That's my point.
RecurringNightmare
tbf, thats standard procedure...pres is only informed on a need-to-know basis...agencies and other officials can do whatever they want...
rubypilgrim
When my sister told me she voted for Trump in 2016 because she didn't like Hillary, I asked her if she was comfortable with him having the-
rubypilgrim
nuclear codes. She didn't answer.
NonstopRampage
You should thank her for the help. Either one would have killed their host party, and she chose to help sink the republicans.
loser9999
I don't trust trump with a potato gun
WheezyLex
Sigh. Why isn’t this asshole in jail yet?
BioGoji1989
They can't find a cell big enough to hold his fat ass.
WheezyLex
?
masstrip
I remember hearing this a few years ago. It wasn't just the photo that was classified, but also the technology that went in to capturing it.
AntiProtonBoy
It’s basically Hubble telescope predecessor pointed towards earth
TwoWheelsGoodFourWheelsBad
It's almost as if keeping operatives secret is more important than the information they provide secret.
NM156
I we forgetting his first day in office when he outed an Israeli spy to the Russian ambassadors?
Micro2112
The photo itself is classified bc it displays the capabilities of top secret satellite imagery
LaughingInTheFaceOfDanger
But he declassified it /s
Nostradamuswaswrong
Most things are classified not because of the information, necessarily, but the methods used to obtain or aggregate it. For example, if
Nostradamuswaswrong
A newspaper posted a story with an anonymous source, the same info might be classified if attributed to a source even if it’s public info.