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Espionage Files: To Mark the 5th Anniversary, The CIA Is Tweeting The Bin Laden Raid In “Real Time”??

Posted on 1 May 2016 by The Tactical Hermit

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The official CIA Twitter account is a strange place, filled with ICYMI’s from decades ago, facts about invisible ink, and images of counterfeit Nazi paraphernalia. The agency will often tweet about historic military operations whose details are no longer classified, but today it seems to be taking that premise to a potentially regrettable place by “live-tweeting” the 2011 raid at Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan as if it were happening in real time.

A government agency tweeting, (in real time plus five years, down to the minute) about an old military operation in the present tense: what could go wrong? While the CIA is not technically live-tweeting, because the raid happened half a decade ago, these missives could very easily read like real-time descriptions of an event. Because most people will be seeing these tweets in their feed (as opposed to on the CIA’s page) many will likely miss the original tweet announcing the CIA’s intention. It doesn’t help that the CIA’s special hashtag #UBLRaid (for “Usama Bin Ladin Raid”) is both confusing and unnecessary.

Public reactions to the stunt appear to be mostly negative:

Read the Remainder at The Verge

 

0 thoughts on “Espionage Files: To Mark the 5th Anniversary, The CIA Is Tweeting The Bin Laden Raid In “Real Time”??”

  1. Pingback: Espionage Files: To Mark the 5th Anniversary, The CIA Is Tweeting The Bin Laden Raid In “Real Time”?? | Rifleman III Journal
  2. oldpoet56 says:
    1 May 2016 at 18:05

    Reblogged this on Truth Troubles: Why people hate the truths' of the real world and commented:
    The Usama Bin Ladin compound being destroyed by the Pakistan government. I believe that this is a good idea, it keeps the place from becoming a ‘monument’ to hate.

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