Israel strikes Iran (Update: US Bombs Iran at #848)

If the bombing was a big nothing burger, ask yourself why Iran is seemingly trying to get access to the underground portion of the facility through the holes made by the U.S. bombs rather than just clearing the sand out of the entrance tunnels and going in that way?

Suspect that what you’re really seeing there is an Iranian effort to actually gain enough access to drop cameras down and do their own damage/contamination assessment.

 

He’s not revealing classified information

 

Ezekiel 23:20

 

Deuteronomy 25:11-12

 

I appreciate that, but to me, the disclosure of information that was missing, or unavailable, from the security briefing is itself actionable intelligence. It seems to me that if you receive information in a classified briefing, you keep your mouth shut about the contents of those meetings when speaking to the public.

 

What you learn after being in the IC for a bit is that a lot of things that the IC classify are still available in the public through open source. So sometimes when you are giving a classified brief, there are things the IC considers classified but the Congress person could have also read it on Twitter. Like if the US IC knows the location of certain Ukrainian forces along the front but there are OSINT accounts that are tracking that info as well through AFU operations that they put on social media.

The other thing that happens with these briefs to Congress is that the brief has to be sanitized to prevent members from knowing where the intel came from, which removes a lot of details from them.

 

That’s not how things work. What your saying that if there a classified brief and they serve donuts that you can’t reveal that?

 

Not sure I believe this but it would make sense why the judges in the Bibi trial agreed to pause it for a bit.