Thursday, January 10, 2008

Check the audio

(via Emptywheel and the NYT)

Okay, so while I very much doubt that the US Navy would fabricate the video and audio that it released to the world, but you gotta wonder about this little tidbit:
On Wednesday, Pentagon officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak officially, said they were still trying to determine if the transmission came from the speedboats or elsewhere.

The audio includes a heavily accented voice warning in English that the Navy warships would explode. However, the recording carries no ambient noise — the sounds of a motor, the sea or wind — that would be expected if the broadcast had been made from one of the five small boats that sped around the three-ship American convoy.

Pentagon officials said they could not rule out that the broadcast might have come from shore, or from another ship nearby, although it might have come from one of the five fast boats with a high-quality radio system.
So, you don't know, but you go public immediately?

Who do you think you are, the media?

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