Rachel Maddow MSNBCVerified account @maddow 13m13 minutes ago
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1/ Short thread here. In light of the Admin's down-the-rabbit-hole strange misstatements about the location of the USS Carl Vinson...
2/ I want to re-up another weird and still unexplained thing that happened Friday night concerning the Pentagon.
3/ Late on Thurs night, @TheHill posted this story about the gigantic bomb the US mil dropped in Afghanistan: goo.gl/oKPXsC
4/ That article was notable for this strange, un-CENTCOM-like statement attributed to "a CENTCOM spokesman": pic.twitter.com/P8qhvkHC7T
5/ Then Friday, CENTCOM put out a press release saying basically, 'Uh, that wasn't us." I've never seen anything quite like this from DOD: pic.twitter.com/1Ca4nc7MuP
6/ CENTCOM never explained who it was that gave that statement as if they were a spokesman...
7/ (We asked, they wouldn't say).
8/ Also, the odd "that wasn't our spokesman" release is not on the site where CENTCOM posts its press releases: www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/ …
9/ Also, look at the "Release Number" on the "that wasn't our spokesman" press release: 20170414-01... pic.twitter.com/tIxbq9f169
This likely means....
It means somebody in the Trump admin put out a stmt on behalf of CENTCOM unauthorized