{"id":2578819,"date":"2026-03-11T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-intel-reporter-humiliated-as-video-of-china-recording-us-military-in-iran-turns-out-to-be-atlanta-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:12:25","slug":"wapo-intel-reporter-humiliated-as-video-of-china-recording-us-military-in-iran-turns-out-to-be-atlanta-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-intel-reporter-humiliated-as-video-of-china-recording-us-military-in-iran-turns-out-to-be-atlanta-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Intel Reporter Humiliated as Video of China Recording US Military in Iran Turns Out to Be Atlanta Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-intel-reporter-humiliated-as-video-of-china-recording-us-military-in-iran-turns-out-to-be-atlanta-airport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2578819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A concise critique of how a Washington Post obituary adn a prominent journalist\u2019s social-media posts intersect with misinformation during a period of conflict. The piece argues that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Washington Post\u2019s obituary of Ayatollah Khamenei was criticized for odd, almost poetic phrasing that some readers mocked as an overreaching or incongruous description.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Josh Rogin, a WaPo intelligence columnist, amplified a claim on X that Chinese satellites were turning the Iran war into a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-johnson-the-cia-has-become-the-kgb\/\" title=\"Larry Johnson: The CIA Has Become the KGB\">military intelligence<\/a> laboratory,\u201d but the satellite footage he cited actually depicted Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield\u2011Jackson airport, not enemy surveillance capabilities.This sparked widespread mockery and corrections from others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the article notes Rogin and others did not verify the footage, and it points to dubious or AI\u2011influenced social accounts that feed misinformation or biased narratives about Israel, Iran, and China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It argues that visual evidence like satellite video is not definitive proof of strategic capability, and that nations with advanced defense capabilities can still obscure or <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >misinterpret real-world targets<\/a> and operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Through aviation knowledge and public corrections, the author suggests Rogin and similar commentators have a pattern of misinterpretation, framing the Washington Post as contributing to a broader level of gallows humor about a perilous war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The overall message is a warning about how easily miscaptioned or unchecked online claims can distort public understanding of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/counting-down-the-10-most-important-battles-in-us-military-history\/\" title=\"Counting Down The 10 Most Important Battles In US Military History\">international conflict<\/a> and technology.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There are few axioms in journalism as rock-solid as this one: WaPo&rsquo;s gonna WaPo.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post is a source of endless amusement, inasmuch as it will reliably give you the worst take on any story, especially in the headlines. No, there&rsquo;s been no &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wapo-glowingly-describes-dead-isis-leader-austere-religious-scholar-get-ripped-shreds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austere religious scholar<\/a>&rdquo; when Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was offed, but that&rsquo;s sadly not for any lack of trying; the capital&rsquo;s newspaper of record referred to Khamenei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/austere-religious-scholar-redux-see-irans-murderous-khamenei-eulogized-wapo-nyt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in his obituary<\/a> as a man who &ldquo;cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is an actual paragraph from The Washington Post&rsquo;s obituary for Khamenei.<\/p>\n<p>Just astonishing stuff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BbPNLwN1w0\">pic.twitter.com\/BbPNLwN1w0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bonchieredstate\/status\/2028091279918170458?\">March 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And then there&rsquo;s Josh Rogin, a man who&rsquo;s the lead global security analyst for The Washington Post intelligence. Rogin&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/josh-rogin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">byline<\/a> only occasionally appears at the paper, but he&rsquo;s an active force on X.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=\"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that, if Mr. Rogin is any indication, &ldquo;Washington Post intelligence&rdquo; might indeed replace &ldquo;military intelligence&rdquo; in the pantheon of great oxymorons, right up there with &ldquo;jumbo shrimp&rdquo; and &ldquo;small crowd.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And now, he&rsquo;s gone viral for it.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-campaign-caught-deceptively-editing-trump-town-hall-footage-to-tell-blatant-lie\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Campaign Caught Deceptively Editing Trump Town Hall ... to Tell &#039;Blatant Lie&#039;\">account called &#038;ldquo<\/a>;China pulse&rdquo; &mdash; pretty much a tool of CCP propagandizing &mdash; made a dramatic claim: &ldquo;The US attacks on Iran have become a veritable military intelligence laboratory for China.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;More than 300 Jilin-1 satellites are recording every detail, second by second, from munition refueling to missile trajectories,&rdquo; the post said, along with video that supposedly proved it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;China is turning US war doctrine into a database, including refueling times and air defense responses.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to experts, this data could give China a military research and development advantage that will last for decades,&rdquo; the post added.<\/p>\n<p>Rogin quote-posted this, along with his own analysis: &ldquo;China is the big winner of the Iran war.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>An &ldquo;intelligence&rdquo; expert might have checked this video to see what precisely it was showing. He didn&rsquo;t, which is slightly problematic &mdash; since, far from showing &ldquo;military intelligence,&rdquo; it was satellite footage of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">China is the big winner of the Iran war. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZkBYwiMo4\">https:\/\/t.co\/sZkBYwiMo4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshrogin\/status\/2030639817881772443?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This got the derision you might expect:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That&rsquo;s Atlanta. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/45QCtirmLP\">pic.twitter.com\/45QCtirmLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Max &#128223; (@MaxNordau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxNordau\/status\/2030775544380330469?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You realize that&rsquo;s Atlanta airport right Josh?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Curtis Spicoli (@curtisspicoli9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curtisspicoli9\/status\/2030651218151018744?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Claims &ldquo;ChiNa iS tHe rEaL WiNnEr&rdquo;.<br \/> Posts a Chinese bot with a pic of Atlanta airport. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WoBi9N9Gx\">pic.twitter.com\/2WoBi9N9Gx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HoR_Emperor (@HorEmperor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HorEmperor\/status\/2030678093036155224?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Now, while this theoretically shows the ability for Chinese satellites to capture footage of a very large airport, it&rsquo;s also worth noting that this airport has little impact on American military operations. And that&rsquo;s not how this post was being sold. There&rsquo;s no evidence that this technology has been able to ensure that &ldquo;China is the big winner of the Iran war,&rdquo; as Rogin indicated the footage proved, especially since the United States and Israel can account for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chinas-biggest-targets-now-striking-distance-trump-beijing-checkmate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology China<\/a> has and ensure that they don&rsquo;t have operational capacity to detect strikes of our own.<\/p>\n<p>While I&rsquo;ll concede I&rsquo;m no expert in this sort of thing, as an aviation geek, I do know what Hartsfield-Jackson looks like from above &mdash; and the fact that this footage had circulated around in videos like this for some time now. These are two things an intelligence expert for the Washington Post didn&rsquo;t seem to understand:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chinese Jilin-1 constellation remote sensing satellite system.\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAjliNiIBFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Nor is this the only time that Rogin has fallen prey to this sort of stuff regarding Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the fact that he reposted, on his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshrogin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X account<\/a>, an interview with former Biden era Secretary of State Antony Blinken which blamed Israel for all of this &mdash; from AFPost, an account that cherry-picks clips to make Israel look bad, in part because it&rsquo;s adjacent to some of the more dubiously anti-Semitic elements on the so-called woke right &mdash; and a factually incorrect post from an account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EgeErdil2\/status\/2029334476837556312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">widely believed to be AI slop<\/a> which claimed, seemingly falsely, that China now controls the Strait of Hormuz because one of its ships is parked in the Gulf of Oman &ldquo;watching the war&rdquo; and providing intelligence. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vesselfinder.com\/?imo=1063607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vessel Finder<\/a>, which tracks the movement of ships, has been docked in port at Shanghai.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fmr. SoS Anthony Blinken says that Israel tried to pressure Obama to bomb Iran by saying they were going to bomb them with or without them, and Obama resisted.<\/p>\n<p>Israel used the same strategy that caused Trump to fight Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Follow: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost?\">@AFpost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bqhPSpkllw\">pic.twitter.com\/bqhPSpkllw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AF Post (@AFpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFpost\/status\/2030724391139459352?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Yesterday I wrote that ships in the Persian Gulf were changing their transponders to broadcast &ldquo;Chinese Owner&rdquo; and &ldquo;All Chinese Crew&rdquo; to avoid Iranian attack. The ocean&rsquo;s rules had changed. The new rules were written in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a 30,000 ton Chinese&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BI7daMCJ59\">https:\/\/t.co\/BI7daMCJ59<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yqU94ECdVz\">pic.twitter.com\/yqU94ECdVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shanaka Anslem Perera &#9889; (@shanaka86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shanaka86\/status\/2030642221608042573?\">March 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both of these are bad, but they&rsquo;re nowhere near as bad as mistaking footage of the busiest airport in the United States as being proof that China has operational satellite capacity to track our aircraft movement everywhere. If so, you&rsquo;d believe they would have given Khamenei and his retinue a bit of a heads-up, no?<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah, in conclusion, Josh Rogin is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lib-media-covered-islamic-terrorists-death-vs-covered-rush-limbaughs-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">austere intelligence scholar<\/a>. 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The obituary of Ayatollah Khamenei is cited as an example where WaPo described him in oddly theatrical terms-an avuncular public figure who enjoyed poetry and classic novels-an unusual choice for such a piece. The article also notes Josh Rogin, the paper\u2019s prominent global security analyst, who is active on X even if he doesn\u2019t always appear in print.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The main argument centers on Rogin promoting a viral claim that U.S. actions against Iran have become a \u201cmilitary intelligence laboratory\u201d for China. The claim was tied to a video that supposedly showed detailed U.S. war planning, but the piece points out that the footage actually depicted Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield-Jackson airport, not military intelligence data, and thus undermines the claim. 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