Enjoy watching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth read a gaggle of MSM reporters the riot act over choosing to believe a low-level leaker over Defense Department intelligence when it comes to battle damage assessment of Operation Midnight Hammer.
“There’s a reason the president calls out fake news for what it is.”
“These pilots, these refuelers, these fighters, these air defenders; the skill and the courage it took to go into enemy territory, flying 36 hours on behalf of the American people, and the world, to take out a nuclear program, is beyond what anyone in this audience can fathom.”
“And then the instinct the instinct of CNN, the instinct of the New York Times, is to try to find a way to spin it for their own political reasons to try to hurt President Trump or our country. They don’t care what the troops think, they don’t care what the world thinks, they want to spin it to try to make him look bad, based on a leak.”
“Of course, we’ve all seen plenty of leakers. And what do leakers do? They have agendas.”
“And what do they do? Do they share the whole information, or just the part that they want to introduce?”
“And when they a preliminary report that’s deemed to be a low assessment. So you know what a low assessment means? Low confidence in the data in that report. And why is there low confidence? Because all of the evidence of what was just bombed by 12 30,000 lb bombs, is buried under a mountain, devastated and obliterated.”
“So if you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep because Iran’s nuclear program is obliterated.”
“And somebody, somewhere is trying to leak something to say ‘Oh, with low confidence, we think maybe it’s moderate.'”
“Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded.”
“And you know who else knows? Iran. That’s why they came to the table right away, because their nuclear capabilities have been set back, back beyond what they thought were possible, because of the courage of a commander-in-chief who led our troops despite what the fake news wants to say.”
I can perhaps sympathize with the need to hate Donald Trump, as represening the opposition political party. I have far less sympathy for anyone who transfers that hate to my country.
The air strike on Iran was imperative if the nation were to confront and defeat the threat of nuclear destruction. Everyone, Republican and Democrat alike benefits from defeating the nation’s adversaries. To undermine the morale and elan of a victorious army is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
This may not be treasonous conduct but it falls far short of the gratitude and admiration owed to the pilots who flew this mission. When compared to the fecjkess and inept Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan,, having the military conduct a flawless operation is welcome relief.
It shouldn’t need to be said that leakers have agendas.
Everyone does. Including the “official” intelligence community, which has a nearly unbroken record of lying and being wrong. Not taking what they say at face value, especially when it’s a headline event, strikes me as common sense, too.
I can perhaps sympathize with the need to hate Donald Trump, as represening the opposition political party. I have far less sympathy for anyone who transfers that hate to my country.
The air strike on Iran was imperative if the nation were to confront and defeat the threat of nuclear destruction. Everyone, Republican and Democrat alike benefits from defeating the nation’s adversaries. To undermine the morale and elan of a victorious army is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.
This may not be treasonous conduct but it falls far short of the gratitude and admiration owed to the pilots who flew this mission. When compared to the fecjkess and inept Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan,, having the military conduct a flawless operation is welcome relief.
It shouldn’t need to be said that leakers have agendas.
Everyone does. Including the “official” intelligence community, which has a nearly unbroken record of lying and being wrong. Not taking what they say at face value, especially when it’s a headline event, strikes me as common sense, too.
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But one must factor in the “intelligence” community saw it as its duty to lie to, and about, to misinform, and to omit information to POTUS 45.
Not safe to be a “leaker” these days I would think.