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People Are Upset At The CIA For Live Tweeting Bin Laden Raid As If It Happened Yesterday

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Riggs5/02/2016 2:45 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So yesterday marked the 5-year anniversary of the day we killed Bin Laden. The CIA decided to “live tweet” the events in real-time to give people a look at how it all went down.

As is tradition, people were upset about this.

 

People being upset about this is RIDICULOUS. What is Daily Show’s point, that if you’re going to tweet about your successes you also have to tweet about your failures? Get out of here with that. Get off your high horse. You don’t see the Bruins tweeting, “Three-year anniversary of giving up 2 goals in 17 seconds to lose the Stanley Cup!” and you won’t see Under Armour Golf tweeting every April 10th, “5:11 PM — Jordan Spieth fans a 9-iron into the water at 12 … 5:12 PM — Jordan Spieth chunks a sand wedge into the water at 12 … 5:13 PM — Jordan Spieth nukes a sand wedge into back bunker on 12.”

But you definitely will see tweets about trophies won or milestones reached. And that’s fine.

If you play the game long enough, you’re gonna have wins and you’re gonna have losses. The CIA’s game is one of the most dangerous (and most respected) on earth. They’ve been at it since 1947. They’ve had wins and losses. The Bin Laden Raid was a high-risk, high-reward win; they made the call, it worked, and the entire story about it has encapsulated people ever since.

They didn’t live-tweet photos showing off the Bin Laden family’s new bullet holes. They tweeted key moments with Eastern time zone stamps, simply showing what the day was like from this end. It was interesting and commemorating of a momentous and iconic job well done… by people that rarely get commemorated for anything. Good on them and fuck terrorism.


Riggs
Riggs5/02/2016 2:45 PM