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NEWS US involvement in Iran
- Thread starter Max Q
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Nothing like a leak to make you feel comfortable with the "facts."
This is sort of reminiscent of Sharpie gate. President said X, therefore opposite of X can't be true, and consequently all assessments must conclude that X=TRUE.
In light of this DIA leak, it's time to finish the job with Operation Veiny Jackhammer.
I'd probably trust NYT/CNN and their sources over noted BDA expert, 27 yr old Karoline Leavitt though.
Luckily someone with OCA can declassify it and release it, dispelling our concerns.
The statement from the White House implies that the assessment does exist and what the conclusion was.
As for whether they were 'misled', several of the smarter experts out there question just how much impact the strikes on Iran's nuclear faculties had on their overall nuclear program.
"At the end of the day there are some really important things that haven't been hit," says Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who tracks Iran's nuclear facilities. "If this ends here, it's a really incomplete strike."
In particular, Lewis says the strike doesn't seem to have touched Iran's stocks of highly enriched uranium.
"Today, it still has that material and we still don't know where it is," he says.
"I think you have to assume that significant amounts of this enriched uranium still exist, so this is not over by any means," agrees David Albright, the president of the Institute for Science and International Security, which has closely tracked Iran's nuclear program for years.
In case you were wondering, Dr Lewis is one of the smarter folks out there on this issue and it's worth paying attention to what he says.
You probably would. But remember, you were once a 27 year old “professional” yourself…once.
That entire article is about the possibility that the uranium was moved…I agree and posit that that Mossad is preparing to solve that problem as well. The NYT article implies that a bit of dirt was piled against the tunnel entrances.
If I was bagging women with a 32-year age gap, I think the wardroom would have been concerned.
I want to see how far this ODNI/POTUS rift grows
The weird thing is probably both Trump and the Mullahs are unhappy about the leak.
I don’t get the first joke…sorry.
Is there a ODNI/POTUS rift? The information was leaked…I’ve been out a bit but is that how ODNI does Intel now?
I do remember that..I was knee-deep in learning the ins and outs of how to fly a CH-53E and becoming a HAC, not justifying hyperbolic statements from my boss or pretending that I know what 14 x GBU-57's just did in a strike on Iran, over the apparent assessment of the IC. I liked my job at 27 better.