This is really bad news for Obama. If these reports are true they exhibit the fact that Obama is incapable of making important decisions. We currently are in the worst scenario as the Iranians possess some of our highly classified technologies. With the help of our other enemies it is possible that our advantage in being able to do reconnaissance without being detected will be nullified. This is not the first loss of high technology to our enemies...
Apparently our intelligence agencies knew that the drone was incapacitated and needed to be retrieved lest it fall into the hands of the enemy. As I suspected the craft did have a self-destruct mechanism which could have been triggered if the order came from the president. When presented with this situation the president decided to do nothing, not destruct it and not retrieve it... He decided to let it fall into the Iranian governments possession.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/150611#.TuUQDbjJLWAPerry: Obama Decisions Gave Iran Spy Drone
Republican contender Rick Perry says Obama could have either retrieved or destroyed spy drone, but did the worst thing: nothing.
By Gil Ronen
Gov. Rick Perry, a contender for the Republican nomination for U.S. President, lambasted President Barack Obama Sunday for failing to keep a highly valued spy drone from falling into the hands of Iran's armed forces.
Perry was referring to a report on Fox news, according to which the US military offered Obama different courses of action for retrieving the drone or destroying it when it came down on Iranian soil last week, but he rejected both options for fear that they would be seen as acts of war.
"This president now, with Iran getting one of our predator drones in their possession(…), he had two choices. Actually, he had three. He chose the worst," Perry accused. "And those two opportunities he had was to either retrieve that drone or to destroy it. And he did the worst of the three. And he did absolutely nothing. And the Russians and the Chinese will have our highly technical equipment now. This president is the problem," Perry said.
He was speaking at the ABC News debate in Des Moines, Iowa.