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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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[-] BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 month ago

What a year, first we got vibe coding and now vibe bombing... I wonder what's next

[-] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Don't forget about the vibe-based deportations

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

We've had vibe-based rape for ages. "She says no, but she clearly wants it"

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago
[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Seemed pretty obvious that Bibi wanted Trump to win and intentionally stalled Gaza ceasefire agreements to make Biden/Harris look bad.

This may have been Trump returning his end of the bargain (or Trump is just a shortsighted and stupid piece of shit).

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Bibi's got kompromat on him, Epstein may have been Mossad

[-] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

As evidenced by the other golden boy of the Party dropping that exact bomb, and nobody cared

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

The girl looked just like Ivanka. It would damage his relationship with his favorite child in an unfixable way.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Obviously. But that's why Trump's doing what he's doing. That's all.

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[-] Saleh@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Well Biden/Harris could have pulled the plug for doing that. Instead they let Netanyahu publicly humiliate them by defying any requests, knowing they would send more weapons as a reward.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

But women are "too emotional" to be president. Fucking hell, just choke on hamberder already.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

It’s interesting to note that Biden didn’t bomb Iran.

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago
[-] CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

So many missed opportunities for O-bomb-a jokes

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

I'm still waiting to see Big Beautiful Bunker Busting Bomb

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 month ago

He only bombed Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan. With Iran he only flew over illegally to bomb the other places.

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[-] opus86@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

It's almost like the former presidents didn't think it was a good idea.

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[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The Intel probably came in the form of a new deposit clearing in Trump’s bank account

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Who uses bank accounts anymore? They probably bought a bunch of $TRUMP. Doesn't every US President have their own private currency?

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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

"There is no intel" describes the entire regime

[-] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago
[-] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Aurora farming.

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[-] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Who does he think he is? A Bush family member? /jk

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Vranyo.

You know I’m lying, and I know that you know, and you know that I know that you know, but I go ahead with a straight face, and you nod seriously and take notes.

The bald faced lies are like the final insult. Even during the lead up to Iraq they made a show of trying to fake intelligence enough to suit their goals. Now it's just, fuck it we ball, and say whatever, who cares, and who cares if they know we're lying, they can't do anything about it.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I’m mildly surprised the Trump leaning press is not claiming that Iran is friendly with monstrous tentacled aliens , and that is why, sadly there must be more war, to save earth..

Many would just believe it

[-] DBNinja@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

You leave the pastafarians out of this. FSM did nothing wrong!

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I mean, if Israel has nukes, and Iran has nukes, that should lead to peace, right? But peace isn't what Israel is after. This isn't about peace. It's about eliminating all that think and look different.

[-] doctortofu@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

You thought vibe coding was bad? Welcome to the age of vibe bombing...

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Siri, bomb a middle eastern country.

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[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

There is no intelligence in the whole administration, we know.

[-] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe the CIA can initiate another coup…ffs.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Wasn't the picture of 1970s Iranian women (dressed like US 1970s women) just floating around a couple months along with the attached comment stating "pictures of places before Muslim rule floating around means the US is about to bomb them" or does that just happen every year

[-] Chocrates@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Iran was a liberal democracy before the US helped topple it and install the Ayatollah.

The US is complicit in all the violence they did to their people.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

Not quite. It was a liberal democracy until the US helped topple it and install the Shah, who was then toppled by Khomeini.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 7 points 1 month ago

Many such cases of liberal democracies being toppled by the Us in favor of dictators

It really shouldn't be surprising that the US liberal democracy got toppled by a dictator when we seem to love such foreign policy.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. The problem with American democracy is that they loved capitalism more than democracy and that is bad

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Those pics are always floating around. Means nothing.

[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

“Source: literally my ass”

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

the president’s decision to strike was not driven by ~~any new U.S.~~ intelligence ~~on Iran~~.

FTFY.

[-] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Really nice knowing that Nuke country #1 is governed by absolute senile murderous freaks for over at least 10 years now

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