1. United States
2. Maine
3. Letter

The U.S. government must immediately release satellite imagery showing the full extent of damage to American military installations in the Middle East. The Washington Post verified that Iranian strikes damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures and pieces of equipment across 15 U.S. bases, yet this information has been withheld from the American public. Commercial satellite providers Vantor and Planet complied with government requests to limit or indefinitely withhold imagery of the region, while Iranian state media freely published high-resolution photos documenting the destruction. This is backwards. Americans have a right to know that seven service members died, over 400 were injured, and critical infrastructure including Patriot and THAAD systems, an E-3 Sentry aircraft, and fuel depots were destroyed at major installations from Bahrain to Kuwait to Saudi Arabia. The Post had to authenticate Iranian propaganda photos using European satellite systems because our own government suppressed the truth. This secrecy prevents accountability for failures that left our troops vulnerable to drone attacks. Military experts who reviewed the damage concluded we underestimated Iranian capabilities and left bases under-protected. Release the imagery now. Transparency is not optional when American lives are at stake.