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Martha Raddatz had to resort to ABC's Virtual View video graphics to depict the collision in the Strait of Hormuz between two USNavy vessels. USS New Orleans was on the surface and the USS Hartford was shallowly submerged. The submarine "was either run over or rammed into the ship," Raddatz explained, but either way the submarine was invisible to the ship so it was the underwater crew's responsibility to monitor the surface. "Likely human error," she concluded. Some 15 sailors were injured by the crash.
CBS' David Martin had videotape instead of computer animation. He filed a successful Freedom of Information Act request to obtain USNavy pictures of the incident in the South China Sea two weeks ago when USNS Impeccable, an unarmed "surveillance" ship, was challenged by a pair of Chinese trawlers in international waters 80 miles south of Hainan Island. "You can hear someone giving the order to destroy classified equipment," Martin narrated. Hainan Island, he reminded us, was where a USNavy spy plane was forced to land in 2001, in the early days of the last administration.
The matelots pose as budding Wolf Blitzers
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