Ashton Forbes

So the president would have been minimum been tangentially aware.

People like John Brennan, James Clapper, they would have been aware as well.

I know the CIA director of clandestine operations at the time was Frank Archibald.

He's now dead, but he absolutely would have been in charge of that operation.

Glenn Gaffney, he retired right before this, but he was essentially the Q of the James Bond Q of the CIA, the director of the Science and Technology Directorate of the CIA.

And they're the ones that acquire the technologies.

You may have heard of something called In-Q-Tel, which is a CIA venture fund.

Basically, they invest in breakthrough technologies they think are going to be beneficial.

So these would have been people responsible.

Like I said, there are two MQ-9 Reaper drones recording MH370.

There's one vertical to the plane that we can see in this color FLIR video that's up close.

And then there is a MQ-9 above it as well.

MQ-9 above it is actually taking photos using something called Gorgon Stare.

And that then beams through a satellite, NROL 22, which is what we see in the bottom left corner, beams through the satellite, and this goes to ground-based systems, stations.

In fact, this is actually perfect for a CIA operation, because what they do is they relay the video feed or the feed through the satellite to wherever the location is they're running the operation directly.

So that way there's not as many places where the information could be seen by somebody that's not meant to see it.

In terms of how the footage got released, Edward C. Lynn is the guy that leaked that footage.

I'm sure of it.

His lawyer won't talk to me.

I think we spoke about all the case around him in general.