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Naval Officer Says What Iran Took From Sailors’ Phones Could Contain Devastating Info
By Virginia Kruta (23 hours ago)

On Monday, the Pentagon released the first full reports concerning the two U.S. Navy vessels and the ten sailors who were recently detained by the Iranian military. That report included one key detail that many seem to have missed.

From Central Command‘s report:

“A post-recovery inventory of the boats found that all weapons, ammunition, and communication gear are accounted for minus two SIM cards that appear to have been removed from two handheld satellite phones.”

Independent Journal spoke with a former naval officer who worked in the intelligence community, and he pointed out why those SIM cards were such a big deal:

“Those SIM cards don’t just contain the satellite links. They also include encryption codes, and otherwise unpublished data relating to specific orders and personnel.”

He also suggested that the sailors should have known better than to allow something so sensitive to fall into the hands of the Iranian military:

“My first thought is that they should’ve destroyed those SIM Cards in the first place because that is considered classified information. I hope that their careers are not tarnished for it.

The first thing an officer is told is to destroy anything of intel value lest it fall into enemy hands.”

In other words, Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA) may not have been too far off base when he spoke out last Wednesday:

“We’d be stupid to think that they didn’t [gain classified information]. I’m glad that the sailors are back safe, but there’s no way [the Iranian military] just let those boats sit there, and didn’t reverse engineer, or look at and copy everything that they possibly could.”

Now that the sailors have been returned to United States custody and initial reports have been generated, the Pentagon is continuing to investigate the sequence of events to determine what went wrong.



http://www.ijreview.com/2016/01/518616-navy-iran-simcards/