The number of direct calls for Seth Harp to be “black bagged,” arrested for treason, or just outright murdered for naming the current uniformed commander of a major U.S. international operation is an important thermometer as to press freedom in the U.S., as well as the degree to which The New York Times and The Washington Post are committing journalistic malpractice for the sake of access by not providing one of the main ‘W’s — “Who” — in their reporting.
I lost count of the number of public (death) threats against Harp that were direct replies to his Twitter post but have included a few of the most blatant below.
First of that this isn’t “classified information”, Seth Harp just pulled this guy’s information (image and description) from a publicly accessible Duke University page, which appears when you reverse image search this picture.
Chris Countouriotis also publishes publicly accessible research papers/summaries under this name and identity:
It’s not as if his name and identity are secret/classified. I found all this in 5-10 minutes on Google.
Secondly it’s highly questionable if this guy is even the leader of Delta Force himself. Yes he has a long career in special forces, but obviously not everyone in special forces with a long career is the literal commander. Harp would need to have some actual evidence here, not a screenshot of a publicly accessible webpage.
Stuff like this keeps me from reading the Fort Bragg cartel.
I maybe misinterpreted the post, but my reading was not that the bio & picture were classified, but that being the leader of Delta Force was & that there was classified info showing that which wasn’t directly shared.
First of that this isn’t “classified information”, Seth Harp just pulled this guy’s information (image and description) from a publicly accessible Duke University page, which appears when you reverse image search this picture.
Duke University page
Chris Countouriotis also publishes publicly accessible research papers/summaries under this name and identity:
It’s not as if his name and identity are secret/classified. I found all this in 5-10 minutes on Google.
Secondly it’s highly questionable if this guy is even the leader of Delta Force himself. Yes he has a long career in special forces, but obviously not everyone in special forces with a long career is the literal commander. Harp would need to have some actual evidence here, not a screenshot of a publicly accessible webpage.
Stuff like this keeps me from reading the Fort Bragg cartel.
I maybe misinterpreted the post, but my reading was not that the bio & picture were classified, but that being the leader of Delta Force was & that there was classified info showing that which wasn’t directly shared.
Maybe that was too charitable of a take.
From Jack Paulson’s substack:
So at least some people thought it was an actually classified document.