Trump tweets photo of Iran that is apparently classified

Harris L Foreign Policy, Trump tweets August 31, 2019 1 Minute

Trump keeps lying when he says Comey released classified information. Trump released classified information to Russian diplomats in the White House. Now, he has released an apparently classified picture of Iranian military installations.

Trump’s pro-Russia policies, attacks on our allies and reckless release of classified information is going to make it less likely that other countries will provide intelligence information to the US. Trump is making us less safe. Sad!

Trump revealed a detailed aerial image of an Iranian launchpad, an unusual disclosure that may have confirmed the United States is violating Iran’s airspace to spy on its missile program, @shaneharris & @agearan report. https://t.co/M8Jc4P0ErA
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 31, 2019

This defense is tautological not substantive. Yes, he can declassify anything but at what cost? What do Iran & the world learn about the capabilities of US surveillance satellites, for instance? And why the need to bypass the normal interagency declassification process? https://t.co/lV1SdE2sFp
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 30, 2019

Yes but it’s not like it was transmitted on a private email server. https://t.co/LzfXu0AbDo
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) August 30, 2019

If you are in the intelligence community and charged with providing national leadership with the best information available on foreign adversaries, a new reality is wondering whether intelligence products sent to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will end up on Twitter https://t.co/zbM2GRlNee
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 30, 2019

Trump says he had the right to release the photo that he tweeted about Iran pic.twitter.com/EbenddQH3r
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) August 30, 2019

President Trump appears to taunt Iran with a tweet that raises concerns he disclosed classified information https://t.co/G5FdFC4Dw5 pic.twitter.com/3qKgPHDdMS
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 30, 2019

aren’t images like this supposed to be classified? https://t.co/RW8Lcp40ea
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 30, 2019

(Thread Alert):
The U.S. openly acknowledges it has a national means of collecting technical information about overseas proliferation. The U.S. has rarely disseminated such imagery, with a noteworthy exception of such images collected during the 2002-2003 runup to the Iraq War.
— Allison Puccioni (@puccioni1) August 30, 2019

The picture in Trump’s Tweet, which appeared to be a snapshot of a physical copy of the satellite image, was included in a Friday intel briefing.
"He’s not supposed to share it." “This will have global repercussions. The utter carelessness… So reckless.”https://t.co/ZEJreTSwOo
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) August 30, 2019

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Published August 31, 2019

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