A former Marine fighter pilot was appalled by a report from Bari Weiss' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that included sensitive information about how the military conducted a recent rescue mission.
"60 Minutes" ran a report about the rescue of an American fighter pilot who says he evaded Iranian forces while he climbed more than 7,000-foot ridgeline to safety. Some details in the report alarmed Amy McGrath, a former Marine pilot and political candidate in Kentucky, who reacted to it on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt.
"Mycriticism is not of them. I wantto be clear. It's of theleadership surrounding this andputting this on TV. My biggestproblem is the operationalsecurity surrounding a missionlike this," McGrath said. "Why are we tellingIran how we did this?"
McGrath noted that the report basically walked Iran through how the U.S. conducted its rescue mission. It included details such as response times, the number of aircraft involved, and force compositions, she said.
"Those are capabilities that wemight need again," McGrath said. "Inlayman's terms, if welose another aircraft tomorrow, we've just given theenemy a better idea of whatwe're going to do to get thatcrew back, and that makes thenext rescue harder. In my mind, they shouldn't have done it."