Now that there is a lull in the Iranian conflict thing there are conflicting reports on whether the damage was as all encompassing as it was first reported……
Little Marco has stated the popular Trump line….
In the back and forth around whether Iran’s nuclear capabilities were “obliterated” as President Trump has said or just damaged, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is making a case for the former fate. The New York Times reports Rubio on Wednesday provided a “more detailed description” of why he believes the US attack set Iran back years, not just months, and it involves a conversion facility in Isfahan—which the BBC reports was twice hit by Israel before the US targeted it. It’s where enriched uranium gas was converted by Iran into solid materials, then metal. Without that conversion, “you can’t do a nuclear bomb,” said Rubio. In his telling, the facility no longer exists:
- “We can’t even find where it is, where it used to be on the map. The whole thing is blackened out. It’s gone. It’s wiped out.”
The BBC flags new satellite images that show a structure in Isfahan that the Institute for Science and International Security had previously said was the main uranium conversion building does appear to have been “mostly destroyed.”
Then there is contradictory reports by the DIA….
Unhappy with the leak of a preliminary assessment of the damage done to Iran’s nuclear facilities in a US bombing that disagrees with his own, President Trump plans to restrict the classified information his administration shares with Congress. “We are declaring a war on leakers,” a senior White House official told Axios on Wednesday. Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Marco Rubio, national security adviser in addition to being secretary of state, angrily objected to the leaking of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s initial assessment, which they say was meant to counter the president’s claim that the targets had been “obliterated.”
Then there is Donny who got butt hurt because of a leak….but hey leaks are a thing in DC it is an institution….personally I think leaks help keep the public informed otherwise there would be no info doled out to us peons.
But that is just me.
I am still wondering what game is being played with this whole affair.
Does anyone have an idea as to what?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Need to drop a tactical nuke and see what happens.
Then put head between knees and wait for the return flight. chuq
No game. It’s entirely about Trump and his ego and he’s pissed with the press fixating on the leak…. that disputes his “5 minutes after the attack he’s saying complete victory and total destruction.” when even casual logic dictates it’s going to take time. The argumentative deflection that the press is “attacking” the military and people involved in the attack itself has in itself created a news event. I have seen NO one anywhere disparage the military’s role in delivering the bombs on target. No one.
Another reason it’s “no game” here.. from day one of Trump’s political existence he’s never thought ahead…. planned ahead.. nor is he devious to hide things. He’s impulsive, in the moment, and does things for show… to build his own ego as “doing the right thing” to save the world, whatever. He doesn’t want secrets because secrets don’t serve his public perception of himself in the moment. The “leaker” contradicted his “5 minute after-the-fact, mission accomplished”.
Like every other cabinet appointment across the board…. Hegseth is a fish-out-of-water complete incompetent, that exists to serve Trump and only Trump. These people have no experience in politics enough to formulate secret agenda end games. Trump always needs public affirmation that his decisions are always correct.
No games being played here… other than schoool yard bully nonsense.
I see he has bullied his cronies into his way of not thinking….he is getting too many back slaps for me to take any of it seriously. chuq
I saw Hegseth on the One O Clock News on the BBC. He’s very angry, and it shows.
Best wishes, Pete.
Hogsbreath is a good actor…..he is trying to live up to the bully example is buddy protracts. chuq
A lot of people, even a lot of the MAGA faithful are getting tired of his antics. Any statement, any news report that doesn’t blindly go along with whatever he says is automatically condemned as being fake news,. the reporters being communists or baby eating demons or whatever fantasy is going on his brain at the time. This isn’t a case of “the blind leading the blind” any more. Dear lord, we have a 22 year old college kid with zero training, zero experience, who’s job experiences are a landscaping helper and a grocery store clerk,, who is now the head of the DHS counter intelligence service. Even the MAGA true believers are starting to wonder what the hell is going on.
I see the junior in charge of terrorism prevention is leaving….But that does not mean we will get a more seasoned person in that position. chuq