Comment by pests
By declassified, you mean accidently tweeted a cell phone picture of the image printed out.
Which is his right, just wanted to add context.
By declassified, you mean accidently tweeted a cell phone picture of the image printed out.
Which is his right, just wanted to add context.
According to NBC[1], attempts were made to explain the ramifications to him. At that point, he knew he was declassifying the photo and knew he was revealing what his experts told him shouldn't be revealed. He simply didn't care.
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/oval-offi...
Yes he quite possibly unintentionally revealed US spy satellite capabilities with an otherwise purposeful tweet. I say the not out of niceness to give him the benefit of the doubt, but because he's probably too stupid to understand the implications of what he was doing.
It wasn't on accident.