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EXCLUSIVE: BIDEN WHITE HOUSE’S MEDIA GAFFE COULD PUT OPERATORS’ LIVES ‘IN
DANGER,’ SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP SAYS



(Photo by MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Micaela Burrow Investigative Reporter, Defense
October 19, 2023 8:36 PM ET
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The head of an organization that represents special operators said a White House
social media misstep that exposed special operators could put the lives of those
servicemembers at risk in exclusive comments to the Daily Caller News Foundation
on Thursday.



On Wednesday night, the White House social media account posted, and then
deleted, a photo of President Joe Biden meeting with special forces personnel in
Israel that exposed their faces — and thus identities. David Cook, the executive
director for the Special Operations Association of America, told the DCNF the
security breach could not only endanger the lives and careers of the operators
exposed in the photo but give Hamas, whom the U.S. is helping Israel defeat, a
“huge propaganda win.”



“I don’t even know what to say. These are horrible operational security
failures,” Cook told the DCNF. (RELATED: Pentagon Claims Deterrence Is Working
In Middle East Despite Recent String Of Attacks, Protests)

“The risk is high. These guys that got pictured, it could ruin their careers.
They could put their families in danger. It could put them in danger,” Cook told
the DCNF.

Modern facial recognition technology aside, photos that did circulate blacking
out the operators’ faces still showed tattoos, watches and other identifying
details. Adversaries could easily exploit this information to target the
operators or their families, Cook said.





“Whoever took the picture needs to be held accountable. These kind of gaffes
happen every once in a while … that’s why SOAA exists, to educate policymakers
and people who’ve never been in the community what the sensitivity is around the
mission and why special operators are deployed downrange all year round or not.”

The social media post had referred to the operators in the photo as “first
responders” doing work in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7. The
Pentagon dispatched a team of special operations forces to assist the Israel
Defense Forces with advice and planning for a possible hostage rescue, The New
York Times reported, but stressed again Thursday that no forces will conduct
operations.

The Pentagon earlier Thursday declined to comment on the photo, referring
reporters to the White House. The White House told the Daily Caller it regretted
the error.






“Let’s say it was a security detail,” Cook said, referring to one of many
different, and quite normal, functions of special operations forces stationed
abroad. “Hamas isn’t going to delineate that — normal people can’t differentiate
between a security detail and boots-on-the-ground, invasion-type stuff.”

“This is a huge propaganda win for Hamas,” Cook said.



Hamas allies have already called for attacks and demonstrations against U.S.
personnel, even though there is no evidence that American military forces are in
Israel on combat orders.

“Maybe Hamas doesn’t have the sophistication to find these guys’ home addresses.
But Iran certainly does,” Cook said.

The White House did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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