It's a cleverly designed denial of service attack against the CIA/NSA/etc. By making them waste time trying to figure out what this base is, they're keeping them from discovering actual information.

Maybe that's why he's an ex-CIA analyst.

Blue roof, yellow trim. Built on cheap land for no good reason. Duh! It's an Ikea store.

Try the maps on IBing

Go there, who does that these days? Click street view and read what the sign above the door says.

That's where they are keeping Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Sooo...

Newest Foxconn facility?



Where are the roof nets?

Not necessarily. China may not be super secret squirrel any more about everything, but they still have plenty of secrets.

That said, it's probably a Wal-Mart.

Nah, this is what a pig farm looks like from orbit [wowwiki.com].

According to Apple Maps it's the Swaffham branch of Sainsburys.

And here I thought it was our base that r belong to the Chinese.

This is a clever trick designed by Slashdot to make people RTFA.

You're not making me fall into that trap, by gum...