LockeColeMA wrote:
Lefties: The situation room photo wasn't taken during the operation itself, but it wasn't staged - those folks were there working.
gbaji (Varus doesn't count): It was staged, and then passed off to make people think it was happening while bin Laden was being taken out.
From what I gather, considering how often the argument changes, he thinks the event didn't happen at all and that the crew in the picture were out getting pizza or something at the time Osama was being retributed against.
As far as me, cuz I guess I've got a lefty view on the subject, is that it could very well have been taken after the operation, or during. Personally, I lean towards after the operation, to make it a more influential picture. Nothing exactly unheard of, considering its a tactic practiced since people started recording history. Photography, oil paintings, wall etchings. You know, not a big deal, especially nothing to draw a conspiracy theory over.
Either way, I'm still saying there
was a gathering where they disseminated what information was relayed to them as it happened in real time. Also, and maybe its not as common sense as I thought it would be, audio and video feeds aren't intermingled. So when someone turns off their cameras, that doesn't mean the radio feeds are disconnected.
In fact, you'd have to be down right stupid to think any military operation cuts off radio communication ... Edited, May 19th 2011 1:10pm by lolgaxe