President Donald Trump and his aides may have accidentally revealed classified information on social media by showing the faces of an elite team of Navy SEALs that has been deployed to Iraq.
Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and other senior White House aides made a surprise visit to soldiers at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Wednesday.
The President and First Lady met with troops, posed for selfies, and signed autographs after news media headlines blasted Trump for not traveling to combat zones during the first two years of his presidency.
After the brief visit, when Air Force One had left Iraqi airspace, Trump posted a video on his Twitter feed.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are seen above posing with soldiers who appear to be members of the elite Navy SEAL Team Five during their surprise visit to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq on Wednesday
The President and First Lady were seen shaking hands with the soldiers, who were wearing full battle gear and night vision goggles. These images were from a video posted to Trump's Twitter feed after he had left Iraqi airspace on his return flight aboard Air Force One
The video was set to Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, a song that the President frequently plays at his campaign rallies
Current and former Pentagon officials say the President and his communications team may have violated operational security rules by revealing the faces and the fact of SEAL Team Five's deployment in Iraq
It was set to Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA, a song that the President frequently plays at his campaign rallies.
The video shows the President and First Lady posing for pictures with a number of soldiers that appear to be from SEAL Team Five, an elite special forces unit based out of Coronado, California.
The President is seen shaking hands with members of the group, who were wearing full battle gear and special night vision goggles.
During Trump’s visit to the base, he paused to take a selfie with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee.
Lee told the President that he was the chaplain for SEAL Team Five, according to Newsweek.
‘Hey, in that case, let’s take a picture,’ Lee said the President told him.
Current and former Pentagon officials told Newsweek that information about which units are deployed and where is almost always classified.
During Trump’s visit to the base, he paused to take a selfie with U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee (seen above with Trump). Lee told the President that he was the chaplain for SEAL Team Five
Revealing such information, particularly when those soldiers are deployed to an active combat zone, is a violation of operational security.
Any videos uploaded to social media showing special forces soldiers almost always have their faces blurred so as not to reveal their identities, according to Newsweek.
‘Operational security is the most important aspect of personnel deployments,’ Malcolm Nance, a former U.S. Navy intelligence specialist who has experience in Iraq, told Newsweek.
‘The real names, faces, and identities, of personnel involved in special operations or activities, are usually a closely held secret in a combat zone.
‘Revealing them casually, through an unusual media exposure even if it’s the commander in chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group.
‘There would be no denying who you are and what you do.’
A Defense Department official told Newsweek: ‘Even during special operation demonstrations for congressional delegations or for the president or vice president, personnel either have their faces covered or their face is digitally blurred prior to a release to the general public.’
‘I don't recall another time where special operation forces had to pose with their faces visible while serving in a war zone,’ the official said.
The White House, the Pentagon, and Naval Special Warfare Command have yet to comment.
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