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Pete Hegseth attacks media for not being positive enough about US attacks on Iran
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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I was thinking about this on the drive home and needed to log in to actually share this bit of craziness.
One of the excuses that they're using for bombing these school kids is to say that their intel on the area was about ten years out-of-date. Which is funny, because ten years ago was Trump’s first term, and a massive data breach happened around that time that cost U.S. intelligence agencies a huge number of agents.
So, no matter how you slice it, this is on the Trump administration for messing up things he’s too stupid to understand. It takes time to build up assets who can provide information on any given area. It’s possible that there was a school there specifically because they knew the location was compromised.
And even if you want to handwave that data breach as not Trump’s fault, (ignoring the fact that he starting this war). He cut more intelligence jobs when he got into office last year. Who knows what USAID was doing, Who knows what paper projects he cut that had aid in the area or fronts for CIA opperations. His military didn't have current data on the region becuase everything he has done has fucked up opperations for his military.
Seriously. These fuckers are complicit. How did we have the intelligence of where the Iranian leadership was but not that the school and clinic next to it were located... like why and how? There is no excuse. Tulsi Gabbard.. our Intelligence Secretary needs to be fired now.