Leftwing Journos Zeal to Expose the Delta Force

After Saturday’s early morning army strike to apprehend and arrest deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his spouse Cilia Flores, a left-wing journalist desperately needing consideration determined that it will be a good concept to expose the commander of Delta Force, the elite unit that spearheaded and executed the profitable operation. 

Self-proclaimed investigative reporter Seth Harp took to the social media platform X and posted an official {photograph} and figuring out data of a service member, whom he claimed was the commander of Delta Force. 

Last evening Harp, whose writings have been sharply important of the U.S. Army, turned his social media consideration to Operation Absolute Resolve, the mission to seize Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela. Rather than analyze the operation itself, Harp centered on the males who carried it out.

In a now-deleted post on X, Harp printed what he claimed was the official Army {photograph} of the Delta Force commander concerned in the raid. His caption read:

“This is the current commander of Delta Force, whose men just invaded a sovereign country, killed a bunch of innocent people, and kidnapped the rightful president.”

In the same thread, Harp acknowledged that publishing such data – even data he described as categorized – was “perfectly legal.”

This is typical of leftist journalists. They are so full of their own advantage that they assume their every phrase and motion is justified, no matter how morally bankrupt and reprehensible they could be. Beating their own drum and hammering home their most well-liked narrative trumps professionalism, let alone journalistic integrity. Harp claimed in his post that, “It’s perfectly legal for a US reporter to disclose classified material the leakage of which I did not procure.”

What the heck does that imply? If you did not procure it, that means you also did not trouble to vet the data or confirm sources. Harp appears to have a real hard-on for Delta Force, and his purported New York Times bestseller is an exposé of the elite crew, which, according to Harp, HBO has picked up for the makings of a tv collection. Along with the X post doxing the Delta Force commander, Harp waxed ineloquent about the army strike that he referred to as an abduction.

The unit that kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro was Delta Force, an group crammed with cokeheads and pervaded by drug trafficking. You can wager that the only narcotics concerned have been the ones that they have been on pic.twitter.com/byWlM3jv0o

— Seth Harp (@sethharpesq) January 3, 2026

Maduro is a deposed dictator who stole an election and refused to give up energy; but do go on, Seth. 

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Harp also wants to take into account dropping that “investigative reporter” label from his bio. Had he bothered to vet this supposedly categorized data before he threw it up on X, he would have found that the service member whom he doxed was not the commander of Operation Absolute Resolve, and was nowhere close to Venezuela on Saturday. Those who noticed the unique post, particularly those who are army members and veterans, ratioed Harp to the moon.

Rightly so.

Seth Harp says it’s legal to doxx the head of Delta
Maybe
But it makes you a world class scumbag
I’d keep my head on a swivel Champ
You just made a lot of harmful enemies pic.twitter.com/ZovzZf86fI

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) January 5, 2026

Ya assume? If this commander is the head of an elite crew of army badasses, X commentators flaming your horrific analysis is the least of your worries.   

Doxing is a crime with evil intentions. Seth Harp needs to be introduced to justice and an instance made him! 😡

— Cindy (@NebraskaCindy) January 5, 2026

Harp could not take the heat or requests for a assertion from respectable publications like “Soldier of Fortune,” so he locked down his X account. Whether you are on the Left or the Right, the rage mob just about works the same. Commenters posted the quantity to Viking Books, which printed his “bestselling” screed, and HBO, which purportedly now owns the rights to translate his novel to the screen. The X algorithm did the relaxation and locked him out of his account, most likely for violation of the phrases of service. According to Harp, he deleted the offending posts and others related to his “critical inquiry” into Saturday’s op. 

What a super loss to journalism.

On Monday, Harp returned to X, account open again, and did what any self-serving weasel would do: He blamed the “fascist” far-right for their “ludicrous allegations of ‘doxxing’.” 

Statement on the ludicrous allegations of “doxxing” leveled at me by a large quantity of fascist, authoritarian, and far-right accounts pic.twitter.com/rtTKw6hIVS

— Seth Harp (@sethharpesq) January 5, 2026

Yesterday, X admins locked my account and required me to delete sure posts in order to log back in. No clarification was given, but I had posted the publicly accessible, online bio of a Delta Force commander, a full-bird colonel, whose id will not be categorized and which anybody expert at FOIA can verify.

In no means did I “doxx” the officer. I didn’t post any personally figuring out data about him, such as his birthday, social security quantity, home deal with, telephone quantity, electronic mail deal with, the names of his members of the family, or photos of his home. What I posted is still online on Duke University’s web site for all the world to see.

If you serve in the US army, your personnel paperwork are public information, as they need to be. Because I served in the Army myself, anybody can acquire my information, which exhibits the items in which I served. Nothing exempts Delta Force from this transparency.

Interesting that Harp places himself on the same stage as supposedly coked-out ne’er-do-wells, then tries to justify his conduct by posting data about deceased members of Delta Force. Harp then goes back to his “greater good” schtick. 

To illustrate these factors, I also posted the information of deceased particular operators, obtained through FOIA, that particularly say “Delta Force” on them, unredacted. In the spirit of equity, I also posted my own service document. X required me to delete these posts, too.

Nothing about this ought to distract from the bigger issue: Delta Force, performing on President Trump’s illegal orders, which contravened every precept of worldwide law and sovereignty, as properly as the Congress’s prerogative to declare battle, invaded Venezuela, killed scores of Venezuelans who posed no risk to the United States, and kidnapped the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, as properly as his spouse.

Every civilian official and army officer in the American chain of command who participated in this outrageously unlawful and provocative act of battle — which a supermajority of Americans oppose — is the respectable subject of journalistic scrutiny, and X has no business censoring my well timed and correct reporting.

What battle? And where is this “supermajority of Americans”? This diatribe is straight out of that Seditious Six video those not-so-bright senators and congresspersons taped a few months in the past. If Harp’s reporting is so “timely and accurate,” then he ought to publish it in one of those publications where he boasts about his credit. Harp could attempt to justify his actions, but what is clear is that he has an axe to grind that has little to do with scrutiny, accuracy, or exposing reality. Harp just desires to be a disaster actor and shamelessly self-promote. “Soldier of Fortune” magazine had this conclusion, and it is spot on.

Soldier of Fortune never has argued that army operations needs to be immune from scrutiny. But there may be a distinction between analyzing a mission and exposing the id of an elite operator. The former is journalism. The latter departs from long-established requirements of skilled restraint. In national security, the penalties of that publicity don’t disappear when a post is deleted.

Consequences go both methods. One means or another, Harp will reap his bitter harvest.

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