The RQ-170 Incident: Possible Sabotage from within? Dave Emory's take on the issue.

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1. Right Wing plotting notwithstanding would it not be just a bit too counterprodcutive

to give the Iranian and by extension Chinese security agencies such a seemingly advanced tool? Nuclear Weapons almost pale in comparison to what some of the Drones seem capable of, and at a fraction of the cost and lead time.

False Flag attacks and apparent "lures", such as this may be, are SOP for the Agent Provocateur. Do we now anticipate a Drone delivered terror attack? Do we suspect a false flag type of provocation in the near future through the "apparent" use by Iran or some 3rd party agent using drone technology? When the government informs us that Drone surveillance will soon be applied domestically, (and likely already are in use), should we expect to hear that the latest outrage is a domestic drone attack?

However, weren't there reports that the some of the Drones had been hacked to some degree already? The suggestion I recall was that they were not that secure to begin with which would not surprise me. It would not be the first time in recent events that western "Intel" outfits, or their political controllers, under-estimated the ability or resources of their targets, or over-estimated the strengths of their own technology, or the degree of control they can apply to events in the real world.

Since there is credible information that we are not being told anything remotely resembling the truth about the Drone program, its targets and what if any oversight is applied, why should we believe anything this embarrassing to the program is what it appears to be?