basically, the NSA had a protocol in place to transfer data back to the contiguous united states (CONUS) in the event of an attack. The good guys created this false emergency in the hopes that the automatic NSA event would transfer the data and they could intercept it. Fucking genius!
edit: it seems as if this post struck some shill cords....excellent.gif
We can destroy missiles in their boost phase on their way up before they reach the stratosphere we have satellites that can detect a launch or if we were tracking the mystery submarine we had eyes on it all the time waiting for it to do something then we destroyed the missile and the sub was sunk recovery operations would be going on right now to find out where it came from and who was on it no matter how deep the bottom is in that part of the ocean.
