[Hunton Peck]

Unnamed AP source versus unnamed Iranian source. Tough call...

[Uncle Ike]

Is this the same “US Official” who said, “There’s no way Iran could have downed one of our drones..”

And then, a few days later, said, “Well, they couldn’t have gotten it intact..”

[SERKIT]

Did Pentagon cutbacks lead to deletion of a self-destruct explosive charge?

[Cicero]

“Above all,” said the anonymous source, “Obama handled it perfectly. It was basically the fault of those Republican congressmen who are constantly criticizing and stonewalling our incredible President! If not for them, it never would have happened.”

[ILS21R]

U.S. Official Says Iran Will Find it Difficult to Exploit Intel in Drone

Considering that Iran is in possession of their own fake drone, I'm not surprised.

[Parley Baer]

These are the same clowns who at first said they shot it down. Now they say they hijacked the GPS system. They cannot seem to get their story straight.

[ncfool]

Obummer said: CAN I HAVE MY DRONE BACK.... PRETTY PLEASE!

[rednesss]

"They won't find any thing of value on this drone, I promise."

[Vermont Lt]

Well duh, it’s written in English. They speak Farsi. It will take them days to translate it. //sarcasm

[Captain Beyond]

Hmmm. BO-The-ZerO’s spin machine is working overtime on this. Obama just needs to hire Bagdad-Bob and be done with it.

[Tupelo]

I still find it curious that the drone somehow managed to land at an airport with no damage. Photos I have seen on the “news” show the craft to be in pristine shape. I thought the CIA or the Pentagon or the Obama regime or someone said it crashed. I am also curious as to why a super sensitive, super secret, super high tech spy plane did not have a built-in self destruct mechanism. Curious. Very curious.

[jrd]

how soon will it be that we will hear that Obama ordered it to be landed in Iran and given to them...

[ASA Vet]

MI Ping

[Mikey_1962]

I keep wondering why they covered up the bottom of the drone.

[DJ Taylor]

Thirty years ago I would have said with confidence that these drones must have redundant “no-tamp” devices on board that would prevent system compromise if one of them ever fell into the wrong hands.

[Little Ray]

Maybe, but I bet the PRC and the USSR, er, Russians won’t.

[ASA Vet]

The official, who could speak about classified matters only on condition of anonymity

I don't remember the part in the numerous security briefings saying it's okay to speak about classified matters as long as you don't identify yourself.

I do remember threats of many many years imprisonment and lots of $$ in fines for violations.

[Adder]

U.S. officials previously have said the drones have no self-destruct mechanism.

Thou art truly sh1tting me. How do you make a machine designed to fly over enemy territory, filled with cutting edge technology and you do not have a “bzzzztttt” switch in it?

[Cringing Negativism Network]

This sounds like an excuse for having done nothing.

Iran downed an American plane.

So do something about that. Don’t explain why it’s not a bad thing.

It’s a bad thing.

[Mister Da]

No doubt Obama will instruct the Defense Dept. to provide the Iranians with an instruction manual - in Farsi!

[MarkL]

I'm sure they're right. Iran will have a tough time getting usable intel out of the drone. Of course, once it's been parted out to Russia and China, you'll be able to find the intel on Wikileaks.

Mark