woodguru wrote:
To his faithful Magadonians Magamoronians there may be no big thing about trump insisting on posting an intelligence picture that showed a top secret satellite image of a nuclear missile test that blew up on it's launch pad. Trump wanted to show the image to show how good our surveillance was, pentagon and intelligence officials told him he was disclosing capabilities we had that they wanted to keep secret from our adversaries. They did not want them to know how good a high resolution project that cost billions of dollars was. In fact they said that if he insisted on posting that image they could provide him with a lower resolution shot that would make it look like our technology was not as good as it is...
But no, willful and clueless trump insisted and who could stop him?
That is the tip of the iceberg...he has leaked an array of things that are known, and who knows what we don't?
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Good God Almighty, will you quit. You're screwing yourself straight into the ground like a sick worm.
Considering the Russians, Chinese and others having espionage agents embedded in our government and industry, particularly defense contractors, to think that a satellite image of a missile failure on the launch pad getting into foreign hands is an existential threat is absolutely absurd. Do you actually think Russian and Chinese spy satellites have never recorded such images?
If you want to rail against spies who did the greatest damage to our national security, check out FBI special agent Robert Hanssen who sold top secret intel to Russia for 22 years before he was nailed in 2001.
Within the same time frame, from 1985 to 1993, Aldrich Ames and Hanssen exposed hundreds of intelligence assets in Russia and got 3 of them k**led. One of them was Gen. Dmitri Polyakov was the head of Soviet intelligence and a major spy for the U.S., providing information on Soviet anti-armored missile technology, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and China. That fountain of military intelligence shut down when Polykav was revealed by Ames and Hanssen, leading to Polykav's execution in 1988. Ames and Hanssen were not working together.
Aldrich Ames, a 30 year veteran of the CIA, c*********d more highly classified CIA assets than any other officer until Robert Hanssen.
Noshir Gowadia, an Indian-American engineer who worked on B-2 stealth bomber project, sold that technology to China for $45,000.
John Anthony Walker, a US navy warrant officer, revealed to the Russians the locations of all of our submarines during the Cold War, he sold them encryption codes for U.S. assets as well as operational plans and other documents. He spied for 18 years before he was caught. Even recruited his son into his operation.
George Trofimoff, a US Army Reserve colonel though was the highest-ranking American ever convicted of espionage. Trofimoff spied for the Soviet Union from 1969 to 1994, a 25-year career.
Ana Montes, a senior analyst for U.S. intelligence and a Cuba expert, passed secrets and information to the Cuban government for almost 17 years, until her arrest just days after the 9/11 attacks.
There are many others, like Jules and Ethel Rosenburg, and more recently, Chelsea Manning and Snowden.
Then there is Joe Biden. God only knows what secrets that damned fool has given to our adversaries.
Now tell us, genius, other than a satellite image, what is this "array of things that are known" that Trump allegedly leaked?