Cheney: Why didn’t Obama just destroy the drone when he had the chance?

Hot Air ^ | December 13, 2011 | Ed Morrissey

[diverteach]

Isn’t it just simply astounding that it would be highly unlikely given Obama’s shady connections as well as his failure to provide a long form birth certificate wouldn’t even qualify for even a modest security clearance much less “top secret”.

[Michael Barnes]

1.) Too stupid to think of something so logical

Where are the military advisers? I have a hard time believing they would go along with this.

[lacrew]

Hopefully it shares the same batteries as the Volt...scheduled to catch fire in a few days.

[WoofDog123]

that picture is going to make history books discussing his election.

[WoofDog123]

\”He stated that the drone landed on a runway inside Iran, and that he suspected that, somehow, control of the drone was hijacked. That’s pretty hard to imagine. “

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/mapping-babel-10017967/keylogger-virus-hits-us-drone-operations-10024516/

still hard to imagine, but not as hard maybe.

[arthurus]

I think the drone was given to the Iranians. There are two reasons that could be the case.Either Obama wants to help out his coreligionists in their war against the Infidel or it could be a case of giving them a fake piece of equipment, one that has something we want them to have that will mess up their tech or severely mislead them about our tech. It would not be the first time this has been done. Arguably the "loss" of the Pueblo to the Norks was such an operation. With the capture of that ship the Norks got a code machine that the Russians thought they needed. Such machines should have been usable by anyone to send undecipherable messages (in that era).
We had not been breaking out the soviet codes very well at all. A year or so after the Pueblo we were reading everything they had. That code machine seems to have been rigged to be slightly other than random. Under Reagan we allowed the Soviets to think they had stolen embargoed software and computer equipment that they needed badly for their arms and gas pipeline projects. It caused them to spend all their money running down blind alleys.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Shush!

[InterceptPoint]

General McInerney is an unimpeachable source. No doubt about that.

But ...

There is no way that the Iranians got control of that aircraft with its encrypted control links. No way.

And ...

I'm a bit surprised that McInerney would hand out the additional info on the landing at an Iranian airfield. Knowing McInerney's background he would never divulge that info if he knew it was classified, which IMHO it would be. So his source or sources are presumably passing out information that has escaped the security controls and is fairly widely known, at least within the military.

This still just doesn't add up for me and that is certainly not a criticism of the General. No question that he is trustworthy on this issue. He will do the right thing.

[SMARTY]

THAT’S why the whole thing stinks

[catfish1957]

Obama the punk POTUS reminds me more every day of Carter. Both lose aircraft in Iran.