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The source is wrong on very basic details. And the big picture of the story is nonsensical: 1) this is a very very very secret operation that Congress shouldn't
by aredox 4y ago
The source is wrong on very basic details. And the big picture of the story is nonsensical:
1) this is a very very very secret operation that Congress shouldn't be informed about, but a shitton of services - including foreign countries - were involved
2) they laid the mines during... A very public and documented military exercise. They certainly couldn't do it from a nondescript modified fishing vessel, no, they had to make it obvious it was them. But very very very secret operation indeed.
This is just an idiot's idea of a secret military operation.
- ClarityJones 4y agoThese errors largely sound like obfuscation... like a potentially true narrative with the names and places changed: - Instead of revealing the fishing vessel, he describes a vessel that it couldn't have been. - Giving the real timing would expose the vessel, so he gives timing that wouldn't have worked as a placeholder. - Too many people were involved, because only a subset were actually involved - or maybe even just an analogous group. Hersh eliminates the intelligence value by obfuscating exactly who did what and how, but provides lay readers (to whom the specific details don't matter) a story that conveys a general sense of how the mission was achieved.
- aredox 4y agoOh yeah, it's so important to not expose the vessel! Grasping for straws, uh?
- ClarityJones 4y agoYeah, I’m suspecting a merchant vessel that frequently docks in Russia.