A ways down in this article is the details of a 2020 SEAL team 6 operation where Kash Patel appears to have made up that they had obtained permission from the Nigerian government for airspace access to run the operation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...campaign=share
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Around noon, Patel called the Pentagon with an update: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, he said, had gotten the approval. The mission was a go.
The SEALs were close to landing in Nigeria when Defense Secretary Mark Esper discovered that the State Department had not, in fact, secured the overflight clearance, as Patel had claimed. The aircraft were quickly diverted, flying in circles for the next hour as officials scrambled to alert the Nigerian government to their position. With the operation window narrowing, Esper and Pompeo called the Situation Room to put the decision to the president: Either they abort the mission and risk their hostage being killed, or they proceed into foreign airspace and risk their soldiers being shot down.
But then, suddenly, the deputy secretary of state was on the line, Esper later wrote in his memoir: They’d been cleared.
Anthony Tata, the Pentagon official and retired Army general to whom Patel had originally given the green light, confronted Patel in a rage. “You could’ve gotten these guys killed!” Tata shouted, according to two people familiar with the exchange. “What the #### were you thinking?”
Patel’s response was: “If nobody got hurt, who the #### cares?”
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So.. here's where I think American's should be concerned. You have these people who have the attitude of: #### you, we can do what we want, we're AMERICA, and this kind of thing with Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio in charge of DoD and the State Department aren't going to go through the actions of actually getting permission to run operations in foreign territories because they don't think they should have to.
I mean, I understand that the main point of these appointments is to weaponize and deconstruct these agencies, but this is likely going to result in a lot of American's getting killed through incompetence and flippant disregard for inter-country bureaucracy.
Like, Tulssi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth being at the top of defence and national intelligence.. I'm not calling for it, but doesn't that seem like it's going to result in the US being woefully unprepared for terrorist attacks? Like, in a major situation, are these people going to know what to do to protect the nation?