> After President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
>Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that **the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”** and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
>While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, **the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.**
>“There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of… The president is protecting the United States and our interests, [but] the intelligence assessments have not really changed from what they were before.”
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> After President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, administration officials are barely bothering to pretend the unprecedented — and potentially calamitous — attacks were motivated by new intelligence suggesting Iran was on the brink of having nuclear weapons.
>Just months ago, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress, in her opening statement, that **the U.S. intel community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon”** and had not reauthorized its nuclear weapons program.
>While Trump recently publicly disputed Gabbard’s testimony, according to two administration officials with knowledge of internal deliberations in recent weeks, **the president’s decision to strike was not driven by any new U.S. intelligence on Iran.**
>“There is no intel,” says one of the officials, who were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. “Nothing new, that I’m aware of… The president is protecting the United States and our interests, [but] the intelligence assessments have not really changed from what they were before.”
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From the people who brought you Stupid Watergate, we now bring you: Stupid Iraq War
I love the idea of firing all the top military officials and intelligence officials and then guesstimating where to bomb Iran.
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This does not matter in the slightest to those who already felt Iran needed to be hit.
I mean you don’t think bibi told him exactly where to target? This was literally a strike Israel would have done but didn’t have the ordinance