Iron Eagle Movie......When Col. Ted Masters' plane goes down in an Arab country and he's sentenced to death for trespassing.....could be John McCain.
One of those posts is 2016, another is May of 2017 and NYT is dated today I think. Old rehashed stuff. The software is from 2013, the Snowden era.
The 2016 article says it happened in 2013, after Snowden.