alt Hacker News> If they had such "eyes" on our earth, couldn't they have clearly spotted those Methane emissions from Turkmenistan well earlier than the UN MARS program did?
Yes, but that would "show their hand" - secrecy has always been paramount.
Of course, then Trump came in and freely shared sattelite photos of idk, an Iranian launch site or something which revealed the US's current day spy sattelite capabilities.
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iririririr • yesterday at 10:17 AM
huge BS. they have no problem doing alternate discovery hacks for information, that was often wrong, acquired via torture in dark sites.
stop making excuses for people you don't even know
See previously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair : the state department didn't like someone disrupting the Iraq narrative construction, so they exposed her CIA status.