Google Earth Exposes Secret U.S. Drones at Pakistan Base in 2006

[Terri]

Fox News

The U.S. was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth, the Times of London reported Thursday.

The image -- that is no longer on the site but which was obtained by The News, Pakistan's English language daily newspaper -- shows what appear to be three Predator drones outside a hangar at the end of the runway.

The Times also obtained a copy of the image, whose coordinates confirm that it is the Shamsi airfield, also known as Bandari, about 200 miles southwest of the Pakistani city of Quetta.

More (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/02/19/google-image-shows-base-pakistan/)

[SewingSusie]

And of course this will be decried by the same leftloons who blasted Bush for not doing more to find Osama and flush out AlQaeda.....the same leftloons who lambasted Bush for not tracking terrorists thru their finances, and then lambasted Bush for tracking terrorists thru their finances, thus ruining the effort.
The Greatest Generation understands the meaning of the expression "loose lips sink ships" but unfortunately my generation forgot that when we became hippies and doped up and tripped out til our brains were fried, died, and laid aside; and the generations of dumbed-down-and-reprogrammed sheeple after us are clueless.

[Luckyme]

The senior U.S. official told FOX News that the U.S. was in fact launching Predator UAV strikes from at least one base in Pakistan, confirming a statement made by U.S. Senate intelligence committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein last week. The California Democrat riled intelligence circles when she seemed to reveal sensitive information about such a Pakistan-based staging ground during a hearing. The official said that slip led to the initial denials from other officials that the U.S. was using Pakistani bases.
Foreign countries must be saving a fortune on spies. Who needs them when the Chairwoman of our own Senate intelligence committee leaks sensitive information as well as our MSM.


Senior officials also confirm that Pakistan has been aiding the U.S. in its Predator unmanned aerial vehicle strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, despite its leaders' very public protests that they see the strikes as a breach of sovereignty.
Who will help us now and in the future if we can't be trusted to keep secrets?

Feinstein should lose her chairmanship and be removed from that committee. There should be a price to be paid for divulging sensitive information. There are times when an apology isn't enough.

Of course, being a Democrat, we're not hearing about this major gaff on the MSM.

[MeaganM]

I am absolutely furious about this! How can I petition to get Dianne Feinstein booted out of office does anyone know? She is my district representative and she has now put the lives of my husband and many friends of ours in danger! They work with the Predator and this was not supposed to be leaked! She is a disgrace and should be prosecuted! If anything happens to these guys, she should be counted liable!

[Terri]

Feinstein is a senator for the entire state of California.

It will take a statewide vote to replace her.

[rthom]

Foreign countries must be saving a fortune on spies. Who needs them when the Chairwoman of our own Senate intelligence committee leaks sensitive information as well as our MSM.

I agree that the well paid journalists who are part of a media which has at its disposal more funds than the U.S. Intelligence agencies. These sad excuses for human beings somehow believe that exposing U.S. secrets, to serve some political purpose, is somehow a noble thing. They somehow believe that allowing other Governments and NGO's to see as many of the cards in our hand is a good thing. It would not be right or rational that the aggressor power should gain one set of advantages by tearing up all laws, and another by sheltering behind the innate respect for law of its opponents. Humanity, rather than legality, must be our guide.” Winston Churchill, 16 Dec. 1939

The political leftists and their media chumps just have no clue. When asked why they reveal these secrets, at bottom is sentiment of fairness, openness, blah, blah. They fail to realize, if it ever penetrated their ideological fog, that: Sentiment tells well in love matters...but...the affairs of nations...have no soul, and recognize no mentor but interest. Sam Houston

These folks care not for the condition or sufferings of the American people, the military which protects them, or the image of America as a whole. They care only for what will tear down their political opposition so that, in the end, they will be the ones at the helm of the Ship of State. For many yeas past, I have said, 'Let the ship run aground! The shock will throw the present pilots overboard; and then competent navigators will get her once more afloat, and conduct her safely into port.' Timothy Pickering,1814

Power and ideology is what is important to these people and nothing less.

[oldjules]

Feinstein is a senator for the entire state of California.

It will take a statewide vote to replace her.


The time is now to start a grass root group organizing for the purpose of giving Feinstein the boot.

Organize people who will circulate petitions asking for her resignation and continue to work for a candidate who can defeat her.
This could snowball with the amount of unhappy people in Calif.

[Love my Texas]

How about TREASON for Feinstein?

It will take a statewide vote to replace her.

A state wide vote in California? Never happen. There are too many liberals in that state to dump her.

Another thing. Someone needs to have a security meeting of the minds with Google Earth. If they continue to risk the lives of citizens, as well as our military then they need to be shutdown. Showing homes of people that are for prop 8 is an invasion of their privacy and I hope those people are going to sue the heck out of Google. Also, when you endanger our military that is Treason.
Oh, but if you are in 'liberal/socialist/communist California you are what? Safe from any wrong doing? Probably.

[MeaganM]

I e-mailed Feinstein and asked her how she can sleep at night knowing she put my husband and many others in danger. I'm sure she will ignore my comments but Urgg...I am so angry, I had to say something!

[thomas]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale & undermine the military are saboteurs & should be arrested, exiled or hanged." Abraham Lincoln
Obama should take a page out of his mentor's playbook!
The Old Chief

[utexas]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale & undermine the military are saboteurs & should be arrested, exiled or hanged." Abraham Lincoln
Obama should take a page out of his mentor's playbook!
But they are his friends and allies, doncha know! Besides, they’ve been doing this very same thing ever since 9-11 nearly non-stop, both Democrats and media.

With politicians like this and news coverage like this, we would’ve lost WWII and all be speaking German now, or we would’ve for certain lost the Cold War and all be speaking Russian right now. I suppose it you iterate it one more time, with coverage like this we will lose the war against terrorism and be speaking Arabic and bowing to Mecca six or seven times a day.

The fact that this is Google does not surprise me at all, it is a well-known far-Left, ultra-Liberal company with hugely strong socialist leanings, like Microsoft. They were one of the largest corporate sponsors and contributors to defeat Prop. 8 in California. Who knows what other un-American activities they support, both openly and covertly.

[Centurion LIV]

Treason charges for Feinstein, Murtha, Reid, Pelosi to name just a few would be quite appropriate. I'm all for it.

With fools like the above in World War II, we would be speaking German or Japanese by now. We all know that they are more equal to CCCP than they are to the USA.

Perdition yes they should be charged with treason, starting with Feinstein. Can I bring the charges or does it have to be a public official? After their fair trial, a public hanging would be in order. I volunteer to build the gallows!

After the letters which I sent to Specter, Snowe and Collins on Tuesday night, they might be planning which gulag to put me in even now. If I disappear from this forum, you might want to interrogate them.

May God have mercy on our country.

Fortitudo et Fides