Ben Thompson's latest "masterpiece" ⏳ is a riveting journey through the labyrinthine world of US intelligence, which no one asked for, and fewer will finish. 😴 It's a veritable buffet of tech jargon and self-importance, sprinkled with references to #ChatGPT because, apparently, quoting Wikipedia is so 2024. 📚✨
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/ #BenThompson #Masterpiece #USIntelligence #TechJargon #BookReview #HackerNews #ngated
U.S. Intel

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Actually he must have read "Mein Kampf"...this is the blueprint of fascism...

#trump #usa #usintelligence #military #hitler #uspolitics #notsmart #democracy #goodnight

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dj217z2w6o

Pentagon fires intelligence chief after Iran attack assessment

The firing comes just weeks after a White House rebuke of a leaked intelligence report assessing the impact of US strikes on Iran.

""Virginia Sen. Mark Warner blasted Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as “not competent,” moments before she dropped a report alleging that the Obama administration stoked election interference claims in a “treasonous conspiracy.”"

This latest attack on Obama is nothing more than another example of Trump's distraction tactics to distract from his corruption and involvement with Epstein.

#TulsiGabbard #USIntelligence #Trump #Epstein #USPolitics #Obama

https://www.thedailybeast.com/democratic-senator-mark-warner-deflates-tulsi-gabbards-obama-coup-claims-in-two-words/

Top Dem Deflates Gabbard’s Obama ‘Coup’ Claims in Two Words

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner was at the Aspen Security Forum when he gave a scathing rebuke.

The Daily Beast
Breaking: Early US intel suggests strikes on Iran missed nuclear sites. Developing story. #Iran #USIntelligence #Geopolitics
Read more: https://ndpost.org/global-geopolitics/initial-us-intelligence-suggests-strikes-on-iran-did-not-hit-nuclear-sites/
Initial US Intelligence Suggests Strikes on Iran Did Not Hit Nuclear Sites

Initial US Intelligence Suggests Strikes on Iran Did Not Hit Nuclear Sites According to sources familiar with the matter, a

ND POST

When #CNN becomes part of the problem with #misinformation and #hate:

Here the CNN headline: #Israel says #Iran was racing toward a bomb. #USintelligence says it was years away

So, CNN blasts out an unverified statement just to put the Israeli government/#netanyahu into miscredit knowing the kind of reaction that kind of a headline will invoke in the #USA, but also worldwide. That is blund #antisemitism.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/israel-iran-nuclear-bomb-us-intelligence-years-away?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Israel says Iran was racing toward a nuclear weapon. US intel says it was years away

When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes were necessary to preempt that outcome.

CNN

Speaking of important signs the Pork Reich is preparing for war on an extremely short timescale: how else do you explain Trump throwing his own DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, under the bus to assert that he was pretty sure Iran was on the verge of manufacturing a nuclear weapon? This is of course despite a March annual assessment by UIS intelligence stating Iran was not even trying to make a nuclear weapon, and was at least three years away from being able to do so.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/trump-iran-israel-nuclear

Trump brushes off US intel reports on Iran to align himself with Israel

"Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, delivered a concise verdict during congressional testimony this March: the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and supreme leader Khomeini [sic] has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003”.

As he rushed back to Washington on Tuesday morning, Donald Trump swatted aside the assessment from the official that he handpicked to deliver him information from 18 US intelligence agencies. “I don’t care what she said,” said Trump. “I think they were very close to having one.”

Trump’s assessment aligned him with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who has warned that Iran’s “imminent” plans to produce nuclear weapons required a pre-emptive strike from Israel – and, he hopes, from the United States – in order to shut down the Iranian uranium enrichment program for good."

Speaking frankly, I couldn't give a single rat's ass about the palace intrigue going on in isolationist wing of Trump's America First coalition. If those nazis were dumb enough to convince themselves the guy who refused to pull us out of Iraq or Afghanistan, and assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani to try and start a war that would boost his 2020 election prospects, actually gave a flying fuck about their faux anti-war rhetoric, they are absolute fucking rubes and get what they deserve. Of far more interest to us here is the apparent isolation of Tulsi Gabbard; she was nowhere to be seen as key Trumpenreich war cabinet officials met at Camp David last Sunday and Trump's familiar pattern of shutting out minions who say things that are inconvenient for his agenda seems to be in full effect. It might have even caused Gabbard to have some kind of breakdown, because she recently vague-posted on social media about the impending threat of nuclear war, although it was unclear who she felt represented that threat most.

Even more telling however, has been the Trumpenreich's embrace of Israel's false propaganda narrative of an Iran on the verge of assembling a nuclear bomb. An embrace notably being conducted by both formerly anti-interventionist Trump minions in the Pork Reich, and key warmongers in the Swine Emperor's military command.

"Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, the head of US Central Command who has forcefully campaigned for a tougher stance on Iran, told members of the armed services committee in the House of Representatives last week that Iran could have enough weapons-grade uranium for “up to 10 nuclear weapons in three weeks”.

Yet a CNN report on Tuesday challenged that claim. Four sources familiar with a US intelligence assessment said that Iran was “not actively pursuing a nuclear weapon” and that the country was “up to three years away from being able to produce and deliver one to a target of its choosing.”

Folks, the intelligence on Iran's nuclear capabilities didn't change, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been claiming they're on the verge of building a nuke since at least 1992, if not longer. Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, they aren't in any danger of building a nuclear weapons program anytime soon, and Trump is simply embracing Israeli intelligence's lies to manufacture consent and further his political objections. You don't need to manufacture consent for an attack you don't intend to conduct, or a war you don't want to fight. Thus, the obvious conclusion here is that the Swine Emperor wants a war with Iran, and his fascist flunkeys are working to deliver on that desire for their Führer. Tulsi Gabbard appears to have gotten caught in the crossfire, but the Christian Zionists and assorted other corpse farmers in the regime don't really care because she's already served her purpose for Trump; convincing absolute fucking muppets who don't read the newspaper that Trump is an anti-interventionist president who would end the "forever war" era of American politics. Sucker fascists fucked around, and now, unfortunately we're all gonna find out - at least if Trump gets his way here.

#Trump #Fascism #Imperialism #Israel #Iran #War #NuclearWeapons #Propaganda #ForeverWars #TulsiGabbard #USIntelligence #BenjaminNetanyahu

Trump brushes off US intel reports on Iran to align himself with Israel

President has dismissed verdict by handpicked spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons

The Guardian
@RichardJMurphy
"US intelligence sources said in March this year tt #Iran didn't hv a #nuclear #weapons program tt threatened #Israel.. There isn't, in other words, any self-defence justification for Israel undertaking these attacks. Iran's nuclear installations aren't, according to te best #USintelligence, a threat to it.. this attack must be seen for what it is, which is yet another #diversion by Benjamin #Netanyahu to deflect attention fr his own trials for #corruption, & now from #Gaza" 1/2

Here is a thought-provoking opinion piece by William J. Barber, II and Leah Greenberg

Keep things peaceful, stay safe.

@newsweek
"In a disproportionate show of force, an authoritarian leader deployed troops to an American city in response to citizen protests. This leader could not tolerate resistance to his extreme policies—he wanted to project power precisely because he was losing control. The spectacle was designed to draw the people's attention back to him. But it failed. Instead, the people learned that they could live without a king.

"While this could be a description of this week's events in Los Angeles, it's also a fair report on the news from Boston in the summer of 1775. King George III had sent troops to suppress citizens who were protesting his abuses of power. Our country's fight for equality and freedom, which has inspired democratic movements around the world, was born out of a city under occupation that refused to bow to a tyrant."

#Trump #DonaldTrump #POTUS #USPolitics #USMilitary #USIntelligence #MilitaryParade #NoKings #NoKingsDay
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-wont-kingunless-we-bow-opinion-2084503

Trump Won't Be King—Unless We Bow | Opinion

In cities and towns across America this Saturday, millions of Americans will rally to peacefully celebrate No Kings Day.

Newsweek

@BurrLand01

If it worked, and the information was accurate, I would be all for it. But Trump doesn't WANT to understand, and the information is coming from very suspect sources.

#USPol #USIntelligence