Re:A Top Secret Seal Team 6 Mission into North Korea Fell Apart
by stogot on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:50AM
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Honestly, I’m not inclined to believe the NYT reporting here either. Those leaking the “facts” necessarily must obscure and change details to avoid being caught as the leaker. But after a few paragraphs, it becomes clear someone leaked this to harm the current administration. Their motive can also mean they left out detail. For example, Obama may have done a similar successful operation but that will not be leaked here. As OP said, usually you need decades to get the truth vs the little reporters can harvest
Re:A Top Secret Seal Team 6 Mission into North Korea Fell Apart
by bigyabai on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:15PM
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> it becomes clear someone leaked this to harm the current administration
Did you think that about Watergate too? If the truth is ugly, then it was going to harm the admin either way. If it's a lie, then we're not seeing anyone refute it.
> Luttrell's book and the film both suggest that the SEALs decision to release the goat herders led to their subsequent ambush - yet according to Gulab, people throughout the area heard the SEALs being dropped off by helicopter, and the Taliban proceeded to track the SEALs' footprints.
Yeah, I'm going to go with the reason these details are "emerging" (aka published in coordination with the DoD) is the aforementioned "unclear factual accuracy".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Survivor#Historical_accur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Luttrell#Operation_Red_...