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

[kpete]

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.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
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Link to tweet

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[Lovie777]

1. shithole really does hate the USA ......

and the friendship between Un of NK is subject, i.e. missiles.

[uponit7771]

3. +1, looks like too many of them do in the MAGA leadership. They want their lord and savior ...

... to bring back the time when they felt superior.

[marble falls]

5. Worse than hate. Total indifference past any personal advanage.

[Effete Snob]

2. Incidentally, the time and date are encoded in the picture

Due to the shadows of the towers and arrangement of equipment, Iran (and anyone else) no doubt was able to back out the time and date of the picture and thus identify the specific satellite which took the picture.

[PJMcK]

7. True, but...

…KH-11 spy satellites can be moved into different orbits so the information Iran may have garnered would be minimal.

Still, Trump was criminally negligent in his handling of government secrets. What other disasters will come to light?

[Botany]

4. I had a family member who worked with America's remote sensing aka satellites and to this day he/she

can not talk about she/he did. God damn it A.G. Garland lock that mother fucker up right now.

[Irish_Dem]

23. Same here.

Close family member worked examining satellite photos and was locked in a "tank" with co-workers every morning.
Worked in a classified part of a large military base.

Purses confiscated until workers were unlocked at end of day.

Armed guards escorted her to the bathroom and back.

Every minute of the day had to be accounted for in written form.
Open desk drawer, took paper out, etc.

She could never talk about it either.

But we knew where she worked and what field her Master's Degree was in.
And we knew she was locked in every morning, etc.

What is the point of security measures when rich, powerful elected officials, just hands over classified documents
to the highest bidder?

[Botany]

35. Trump had documents as per our satellites @ Merde a Logo

He had documents that marked TK that were highly classified about our remote sensing
programs aka satellites, cyber stuff, and our programs to intercept intelligence from
foreign powers.

Even though he was out of power I have no doubt that he told the Russians all kinds of
stuff about our spy satellites that are in geosynchronous orbits over the Ukraine region.

Can you imagine if Obama, Clinton, or Jimmy Carter was caught doing that shit what would
have happened, the screams of outrage, and how quickly those people would have been brought
in for questioning?

Trump is a fucking traitor and a Russian asset who needs to be put away forever. How many
Americans were killed by al Qaeda in Afghanistan with Russia paying them a bounty and still Trump
didn't say shit.

Although Garland just named a special counsel to oversee the investigation into those stolen documents
today.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142996890

Trump needs to be in the Super Max in Florence, CO.

[Irish_Dem]

36. Of course he sold/gave material to our enemies.

To think he was sitting on classified documents worth $billions and didn't hawk them around?
Not possible.

Exactly, he is guilty of treason and espionage at the highest levels.

What would have happened to my sister if she had taken one picture out of the tank?

[Botany]

37. Well we know that he sold/gave top secret "stuff" to MBS/bone saw* as per Khashoggi and Saudis ....

... they were not loyal to him, intel on Israel's nuclear program and secret agents to Russia (S.A. too
I think) and info about Oligarchs that were not loyal to Putin to Putin .... a whole family was murdered
in Spain this year.

BTW we have had 3 people who did espionage at what I think @ Trump's level and we executed 2 of
them the Rosenbergs and put the other guy (FBI Agent Robert Hansen) into our super max for 15
life terms.


* via Kushner

[Irish_Dem]

39. Yes exactly. Hanssen sits in Supermax in solitary for the rest of his life.

And we know what happened to the Rosenbergs.

We will probably never be told how much damage Trump did in terms of stolen docs.
National security issues will be cited.

[Botany]

40. And here is Trump giving away top secret information about an Israeli agent inside of ISIS in ...

... Syria to Russian State Agents Kislyak & Lavrov in the oval office in Jan. 2017.

[Irish_Dem]

41. Right out of the gate, he is giving away classified information.

[dalton99a]

6. Not the first time the traitor used his cellphone to copy and send national secrets

According to reports, Trump first saw the image as part of a daily intelligence briefing on the morning after the Iranian launch failure. In the most complete account of what happened next, published last year by Yahoo! News, 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.

NPR has not independently verified that reporting, but what is clear is that the image in the tweet was a photograph of a sheet of physical paper, Lewis says. Visible at the center of Trump's tweet is the shine of overhead lights or a flash, and a shadow, possibly from Trump or an aid, photographing the image with a camera.

A portion of the text tweeted by the president also used the exact wording of the then-classified caption to the image, indicating his tweet was based on the NGA briefing document released to NPR.

After he tweeted the image, Trump said that he did nothing wrong. "We had a photo and I released it, which I have the absolute right to do," he told reporters at the time. The president has ultimate authority over what material is classified, and Aftergood says that he was probably within his legal rights to publicize the image.

[Bayard]

8. If he declassified this photo with his mind,

The way he did all the Classified documents, it was still classified when he blasted it out.

[chriscan64]

9. His prime directive is the power of "just saying".

If you commit a crime, just say you didn't do it. If you owe money, just say you don't owe it or you already paid it back, or both. Added to the real powers bestowed upon the president are a bunch more that he just says he has like declassifying information through nothing more than intent. He just says he had this power to this day. So, Susan Collins, do you still think he learned his lesson?

[LaMouffette]

10. But, but . . . Joe Biden!!! There will never be greater hypocrisy than when the Repube-controlled

House tries to impeach Joe Biden.

When that happens, the DNC needs to launch a nationwide ad campaign reminding people of all the treasonous acts Traitor Trump committed as "president" and spy-in-chief, and contrast them with all the good things President Biden and the Dem-controlled House and Senate accomplished in just two years, despite the all-out effort from the Repubes to obstruct any good legislation that would benefit average Americans from being achieved.

[Otto_Harper]

16. If they would actually do that, for once, instead of just

dancing around with severe normalcy bias, I would write a major check from my meager retirement savings to help pay for that.

[Aviation Pro]

11. JFC, Motherfucker compromised sources and fucking methods

Want to put a dollar figure on that, Bloated Tick? How about a billion-dollar program.

Pay the fuck up.

[orangecrush]

12. And still not indicted.

Wake me up when he is.

I'm fucking sick of it.

[Orrex]

13. This'll really come back to bite him in 15 years or so

[Irish_Dem]

25. Maybe by then the DOJ can send him a sternly worded letter.

[Orrex]

31. Let's not be too hasty

These things take time to do properly, I’m endlessly told.

[SheltieLover]

14. Lock. The. Slob. Up!

[orangecrush]

19. +1

[SheltieLover]

20. I believe it's coming.

[orangecrush]

30. I'm writing

Santa a letter!

[SheltieLover]

33. Lol

Good one!

[Starfury]

15. Helpfully, trump apparently included exactly which US Code he was violating...

One of them, anyway. The stoopid, it burns....

[pwb]

17. Why?

Because he loves others misery?

[NoMoreRepugs]

18. Tens of millions of Deplorable morons are okay with this from their savior - but Biden

stumbling over an occasional word is the end of the fucking Universe.

[Pepsidog]

21. I doubt we have many real secrets left after TFG and Jared and now we are going to

hear bullshit Hunter Biden hearing. Within the Republican Party this level of traitorous conduct was so wide spread that this revelation is just another "so what" he had the right to declassify. Senate needs to immediately conduct hearings on Jared's $2 billion dollar investment by the Saudis into his investment fund. Even the Saudis realized that investing in the fund was a bad idea and voted against it. Of course, Bone MBS overruled the committee advice and sent the money. This all is just infuriating.

[Coventina]

22. Remind me again as to why this criminal is not in jail, awaiting trial?

[Orrex]

32. Because of reasons

Haven’t you been reading the daily reminders from the DoJ faithful?

[LudwigPastorius]

24. _

[3auld6phart]

26. 9jeesus H

Quit dragging your ass. That orange piece of shit should be in prison a long time ago. Why are they taking their time. They have enough dirt on Jim to send him to meet his maker.

[Liberal In Texas]

27. The Key Hole (KH) satellites can take a picture of a man sitting on a bench reading a

newspaper and the headlines will be legible. And this is from something I read over 10 years ago. They must be even better now.

TFG needs to be in jail.

[Marthe48]

28. Where's James Bond

or Mission Impossible when you need them? I don't understand why this walking, talking, obvious enemy of the state is allowed to be walking around free, let alone announce a run for a leadership position. He's not fit to pick up dog crap in a park, or clean public toilets.

[republianmushroom]

29. 22 months and counting. Where is the DoJ ??

[world wide wally]

34. Once again the laws do not apply to the Trumps

[lindysalsagal]

38. Really??? Right when Twitter has been ransacked and shuttered??? Is that just more dumb luck

or did Elon just play footsie with the orangutan and try to scuttle this proof of treason?