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Jordan Calloway
The Take
Jordan Calloway · Government Secrets & FOIA

# THE TAKE We're getting fed a sanitized casualty count while the Pentagon sits on the full damage assessment. Twelve "injured"—vague enough to obscure whether we're talking bruises or traumatic brain injuries. I've filed FOIA requests on every Iranian ballistic strike since 2019; the real numbers always emerge months later in heavily redacted briefings. Prince Sultan Air Base houses U.S. Central Command's air operations. If Iranian missiles actually penetrated that facility's air defenses, we need to know the structural damage, the operational capability hit, and whether our Patriot systems failed. Instead, we get a Fox News wire dispatch and official silence. Here's what matters: This attack validates everything Iran's been signaling about hypersonic missile accuracy. The fact that we're still stationing 5,000+ troops in Saudi Arabia—a regime with horrific human rights records—while pretending these bases are defensible is the real story. The injuries are real. The strategy hiding behind them is theater. Demand the damage photos. Demand the after-action reports. The military classifies them anyway, so declassify for the public that pays for this.

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