The Gateway Pundit reported Monday that the Biden administration has given CBS access to U.S. military personnel and key U.S. military command centers. On Sunday evening, CBS aired a “60 Minutes” current affairs segment that revealed the Trump administration’s secret military strategy to save the lives of U.S. troops.
The Gateway Pundit said that Trump’s secret defense strategy, already known to everyone on the road, is almost scrapped and useless.
In early January 2020, Iran was preparing to launch missiles aimed at a U.S. air base in Iraq in retaliation for the death of IRGC Major General Soleimani, who was considered second only to Khamenei in Iran, in a U.S. drone strike six days earlier.
However, Iran’s purchase of commercial satellite imagery has been under the watchful eye of the U.S. military. On the very day of the missile launch, shortly after Iran uploaded the purchased imagery for the last Time, U.S. Marine Corps General McKenzie began ordering the evacuation of U.S. personnel from Assad Air Base in western Iraq, along with helicopters, Drones, other aircraft and assets. The Iranian authorities had no idea the target of their missile strikes, Assad Air Base, was essentially empty.
David Martin is an American television news reporter and Writer who works for CBS and has been the Pentagon’s cyber national security correspondent since 1993.
Martin said on “60 Minutes,” a weekly current affairs program, that by purchasing photos taken by commercial satellites, the Iranians were able to conduct surveillance of Assad Air Base. General McKenzie waited until Iran had downloaded the last photo of the day before ordering the withdrawal operation. So what will the Iranians see in the commercially acquired spy images one last time?
General McKenzie said they would see planes on the ground, people at work… The Iranian authorities’ expectation at the time was that the missile strike would destroy some U.S. aircraft and cause U.S. casualties.
Iran, which buys satellite imagery from commercial sources, could not monitor Assad Air Base in real time, which gave the U.S. military a few hours to evacuate 1,500 U.S. troops and 70 Norwegian service members. Most had until 11 p.m. Jan. 7, 2020, to either fly off the base or hide in bunkers. The Iranian missile launch began just after 1:30 a.m., and no U.S. troops were killed in the attack. Like most of the coverage on “60 Minutes,” the tone of the commentary was attacking Trump. This week’s program quoted one soldier as saying, “We’re kind of lucky.”
The Trump Administration has kept U.S. military operations and strategies secret, including this one. Yet, the Biden Administration seems no different from the Obama regime in its willingness to show the hand of the U.S. military.
Surprisingly, the program featured detailed video of the inside of the U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, and CBS revealed that the location of the Central Command is in Tampa, Fla. Among the numerous interviews with U.S. military personnel were also descriptions of U.S. military operations that day, all of which U.S. military adversaries would like to know.
In the CBS program, various types of CENTCOM communications equipment can be seen, including nearly 30 telephones, some of which are marked with paper labels and notes. One table sign was seen to read “Vice Admiral Malloy” (“VADM Malloy”), indicating that the equipment was placed here to speak directly with Vice Admiral Malloy. Vice Admiral Malloy is not the subject of 60 Minutes, so why reveal this information?
The exact make and model of the various IP phones featured on the show can now be identified, including the type of firmware on these devices, which will make it easier for the enemy to target U.S. Central Command communications. Although many of the computers are in screen protection, desktop icons, paper labels and note stickers attached to the side panel of the screen are clearly visible. One can also see from the program that the computers used at CENTCOM include the major workstation brands, CAG workstations, J3 workstations, and CESL workstations.
In a 3-second clip, viewers can also see the dial pad for CENTCOM phones, and several contact numbers (539-xxxx), and direct dial labels for the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others, are all clearly visible; these labels are not paper, they are data labels displayed on a small screen, and the data labels are stored in a database and are traceable.
The Gateway Pundit said it is surprising that a commander-in-chief or staff would allow such images to be made public. CBS likely has hours and hours of raw HD footage that should have been deleted immediately. CBS is perfectly capable, without using these images above, of producing programs with the same content. So, the Biden administration and CBS, whose side are they on?
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