Following Trump’s attacks on Iran, an admin official tells Rolling Stone, “The intelligence assessments have not really changed”

After 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.

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      lol Republicans don’t give a shit about anything he’s done or could do. They like Trump and there’s nothing in this world that could change that.

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      Epstein may have sold (or volunteered) intel both to Mossad and to US three-letter agencies. I don’t know if that made him a Mossad agent.

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        I thought Ghislane was the Mossad contact, wasn’t her father actually in Mossad leadership? Epstein was the ‘party’ boy, gag, and Maxwell was operations?

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      More accurately, his girlfriend is, he’d probably be consider an asset. An important distinction on whether you protect them when they’re in trouble.

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          Maxwell’s Dad was an interesting guy if you read up on him. The dude had a lot of enemies via his business dealings and him being a literal spy for MI6/Mossad. Some believe Mossad even assassinated him, but I don’t really believe it.

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            The fact that the shit had just hit the fan regarding Maxwell’s looting of his employees’ pension plans probably had more to do with his suicide.