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No surprises here:

 

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

 

"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."

 

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""The entire US intelligence community is incredibly averse to letting this information out," Lewis says. "The idea that the president would just scream 'YOLO!', photograph it and tweet it--is really hard to take."

 

Cardillo says he is certain that other countries have used Trump's tweeted image to learn more about what U.S. spy satellites can do. If, for example, Putin had tweeted a photo from a Russian satellite, he says that the U.S. would have assembled a task force to learn everything they could from the image.

 

In the case of Trump's tweet: "my assumption is that Russia would have done the same thing and Iran would have done the same thing," he says.

 

Aftergood says the latest release "confirms a kind of recklessness on the part of former President Trump and also a disrespect for the rather astonishing intelligence that he was receiving.""

 

IB4 The same people who would be apoplectic if Obama or Biden did this completely missing the point and replying with "durrr Trump had the authority to do this. hurr durr."

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