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Did Donald Trump tweet classified military imagery?
Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent
30 August 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49532408
Donald Trump's latest tweet has potentially set a precedent for classified information being shared by a president
President Donald Trump has set a new standard for extraordinary presidential behaviour.
Not only has he tweeted what would normally be a highly classified, military-quality satellite image showing the devastation around the launch pad at Iran's main space centre following a significant explosion.
He has gone further by apparently taunting the Iranians, insisting the US was not involved in the "catastrophic accident" but also wishing Iran "good luck" in finding out what happened.
Was this presidential sarcasm or misinformation?
Was he implying that somebody else might indeed have been involved?
Or was it just the president's regular habit of responding by saying the first thing that came into his head?
It's hard to say. But, as ever, Mr Trump's intervention raises more questions than it answers.
For some weeks now experts have been reporting preparations for an Iranian space launch.
Commercial satellite imagery of the space centre showed the launch pad being made ready.
The mission, according to Iranian reports, was to put a small telecommunications satellite - Nahid 1 - into orbit.
Two previous launch attempts at the start of this year had ended in failure.
This one, too, appears now to have ended in disaster. The difference, though, is that the full magnitude of the calamity has been revealed by President Trump himself.
So what caused Iran's rocket to explode so dramatically on the launchpad?
We simply do not know. But there are two obvious answers.
Firstly it could have been down to a simple technical malfunction; a problem with fuel or some kind of error in the rocket's manufacture - a faulty weld seam or whatever.
These things happen; think back to some of the disasters during America's own space programme. Even the most technologically advanced nations have setbacks.
But Iran's track record with launches is very poor.
A New York Times article back in February, drawing heavily on interviews with unnamed US officials, suggested that Iran's two earlier failures this year were part of a pattern.
It suggested that some 67% of Iran's orbital launch attempts over the past 11 years had failed.
It described this as "an astonishingly high number" compared to the average 5% failure rate for comparable launches worldwide."
Tensions have been escalating between the US and Iran
The article indicated that the Trump administration was moving to reactivate a sabotage programme against Iran's missile efforts by introducing faulty parts into the supply chain and so on.
A previous US effort had been phased out by President Obama.
So could sabotage be implicated in this latest accident? Who knows, but Mr Trump himself has only muddied the waters by his Twitter intervention.
There is a significant history of external forces attempting to hamper Iran's military research.
Israel and the US were involved in efforts to sabotage Iran's uranium enrichment programme using a computer virus.
Iranian scientists and technicians have been assassinated.
And of course both the US and Israel see Iran's space programme as inextricably linked to its wider missile efforts.
However, the most extraordinary aspect of this affair is the president's publication of a normally classified high-resolution satellite image that could only have come from a military source.
This has thrown the missile and arms control community on the Twitter-sphere into a frenzy.
It is an amazing thing for a US president to do, giving all Washington's enemies a very public insight into its extraordinary intelligence-gathering capabilities.
Jonathan Marcus Diplomatic correspondent
30 August 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49532408
Donald Trump's latest tweet has potentially set a precedent for classified information being shared by a president
President Donald Trump has set a new standard for extraordinary presidential behaviour.
Not only has he tweeted what would normally be a highly classified, military-quality satellite image showing the devastation around the launch pad at Iran's main space centre following a significant explosion.
He has gone further by apparently taunting the Iranians, insisting the US was not involved in the "catastrophic accident" but also wishing Iran "good luck" in finding out what happened.
Was this presidential sarcasm or misinformation?
Was he implying that somebody else might indeed have been involved?
Or was it just the president's regular habit of responding by saying the first thing that came into his head?
It's hard to say. But, as ever, Mr Trump's intervention raises more questions than it answers.
For some weeks now experts have been reporting preparations for an Iranian space launch.
Commercial satellite imagery of the space centre showed the launch pad being made ready.
The mission, according to Iranian reports, was to put a small telecommunications satellite - Nahid 1 - into orbit.
Two previous launch attempts at the start of this year had ended in failure.
This one, too, appears now to have ended in disaster. The difference, though, is that the full magnitude of the calamity has been revealed by President Trump himself.
So what caused Iran's rocket to explode so dramatically on the launchpad?
We simply do not know. But there are two obvious answers.
Firstly it could have been down to a simple technical malfunction; a problem with fuel or some kind of error in the rocket's manufacture - a faulty weld seam or whatever.
These things happen; think back to some of the disasters during America's own space programme. Even the most technologically advanced nations have setbacks.
But Iran's track record with launches is very poor.
A New York Times article back in February, drawing heavily on interviews with unnamed US officials, suggested that Iran's two earlier failures this year were part of a pattern.
It suggested that some 67% of Iran's orbital launch attempts over the past 11 years had failed.
It described this as "an astonishingly high number" compared to the average 5% failure rate for comparable launches worldwide."
Tensions have been escalating between the US and Iran
The article indicated that the Trump administration was moving to reactivate a sabotage programme against Iran's missile efforts by introducing faulty parts into the supply chain and so on.
A previous US effort had been phased out by President Obama.
So could sabotage be implicated in this latest accident? Who knows, but Mr Trump himself has only muddied the waters by his Twitter intervention.
There is a significant history of external forces attempting to hamper Iran's military research.
Israel and the US were involved in efforts to sabotage Iran's uranium enrichment programme using a computer virus.
Iranian scientists and technicians have been assassinated.
And of course both the US and Israel see Iran's space programme as inextricably linked to its wider missile efforts.
However, the most extraordinary aspect of this affair is the president's publication of a normally classified high-resolution satellite image that could only have come from a military source.
This has thrown the missile and arms control community on the Twitter-sphere into a frenzy.
It is an amazing thing for a US president to do, giving all Washington's enemies a very public insight into its extraordinary intelligence-gathering capabilities.
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At least 20 people are dead in the Bahamas, millions have evacuated their homes in the Carolinas and U.S. President Donald Trump is still tweeting and showing off doctored Hurricane Dorian projections to “prove” he didn’t make a mistake about Alabama being in its path.
The president has spent much of this week stubbornly defending a tweet he issued ahead of the storm on Sunday when he incorrectly stated that the hurricane was projected to hit Alabama. The National Weather Service immediately pointed out that Trump was incorrect, but he has repeatedly doubled down and defended the tweet.
The controversy reached a new level of absurdity on Wednesday when the president showed off a seemingly doctored map projecting Hurricane Dorian’s path at a photo op in the Oval Office. The map showed a white cone of uncertainty over Florida and a seemingly hand-drawn black loop that extended its path over Alabama.
The map is dated Aug. 29, meaning it was six days old when Trump held it up to prove his point. And it still didn’t include Alabama.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump holds up a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration map of a previously projected path of Hurricane Dorian, while participating in a briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2019. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS
The unusual map addition triggered a flurry of mockery on Twitter, where users shared images with crudely-drawn additions that favoured Trump’s world view. People used Sharpie-style edits to improve Trump’s inauguration crowd size, buff up his physique and build his border wall with Mexico.
One person even went so far as to scribble out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from a viral photo he had with Melania Trump at the G7 Summit last month.
When asked on Wednesday about the apparently hand-drawn addition to the map, Trump offered no explanation.
“I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know,” he said. “I know that Alabama was in the original forecast,” he added, before claiming that there was a “95 per cent chance probability” that Alabama would have been hit.
The highest probability issued for any U.S. region in Dorian’s potential path is 60 per cent, the Associated Press reports.
Trump doubled down on his Alabama claim Thursday morning in the middle of a two-pronged Twitter rant. (His other target was actress Debra Messing.)
“Alabama was going to be hit or grazed, and then Hurricane Dorian took a different path (up along the East Coast),” he tweeted.
Several users questioned why Trump would not simply admit a mistake and move on — something he has rarely done during his tenure as president.
“It’s okay to be wrong sometimes, y’all,” user @rebelkellll wrote. “Don’t be like this man.”
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump abruptly announced in a tweet Tuesday that he has asked national security adviser John Bolton to resign, noting that he "strongly disagreed with many" of Bolton's suggestions "as did others in the administration."
"I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week," Trump wrote.
"I thank John very much for his service. I will be naming a new National Security Advisor next week," Trump wrote.
