US intelligence has adopted President Donald Trump’s position on the success of American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in their goals, despite the media’s doubts.
The British newspaper “The Guardian” commented on this position by saying that Trump forced intelligence to repeat his statements, as did former President George Bush Jr. when he invaded Iraq in 2003.
She added that in the period leading up to the American invasion, journalists who cover preparations for the war on the term “misleading intelligence”, which describes the tactic of pushing intelligence information to the main political decision makers, exceeding the controls and balances within the system.
The most common term was “selection”; In the case of the Iraq war, the George W. Bush administration believed that the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, and worked to prove the validity of its assumption, and convinced of it of the validity of this belief, sought to simplify the information that confirms its belief.
The newspaper stated that all of this is strangely familiar in the case of Iran, because Donald Trump and some of his senior officials (including Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Verse, CIA director John Ratcliffe, and Defense Minister Beit Higseth) seem to resort to inaccurate conclusions.
While the Bush administration, with the support of the government of Tony Blair in Britain, turned the justification of the war intelligence into a dodging public relations operation that left senior intelligence and army officials, Trump applied the same approach to everything. Now, his remarks about the damage to Iranian nuclear establishments have turned into a loyalty to his officials who were quick to adhere to the rules, even with the provocation of intelligence leaks doubting the validity of his allegations.
The newspaper pointed out that Trump said, on Saturday, after the American air strikes on Iranian sites in Isfahan, Natanz and Forde, that “the main nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran have been completely destroyed.”
However, on Tuesday, a leaked evaluation of the US Defense Intelligence Agency concluded that the attacks may have hindered the nuclear program for only a few months, and that a large part of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stock may have been transferred before the strikes.
“Due to his arrogance, Trump and those around him launched more exotic allegations: the attack was historically equivalent to Nagazaki and Hiroshima bombs in Japan during World War II.”
On the other hand, the International Atomic Energy Agency stated that the fate of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stocks cannot be known, but Trump denied the transmission of highly enriched uranium, and published on social media: “Nothing was transferred from the facility,” on Friday, Higseth followed his example, saying that he has no knowledge of intelligence information indicating the transfer of these materials.
“The Guardian” said that the world is accustomed to Trump’s anger, but the credibility of intelligence information (before and after the attack) is very important, because it reflects the credibility of the United States in the most important international security issues.
She has been inspired by the way in which the intelligence information that justified the attack was renovated. In her testimony to Congress earlier this year, Toulcy Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence in the Trump Administration, reflected the official view of the intelligence services.
She acknowledged that Iran’s stock of enriched uranium was “unprecedented for a country that does not have nuclear weapons”, but the evaluation of intelligence agencies indicated that Iran has not resumed work on building a nuclear weapon since the suspension of this effort in 2003.
After being pressured by Trump, who refused to evaluate her last week, Gabbard was quick to obey, claiming that her statements were emptied of its context by “non -fair media”, and that Iran may have been about to make a nuclear weapon within “weeks or months”.
The Guardian said that Trump’s attack on Iran was based on “feelings, not intelligence information”, as stated in an unforgettable title for the Rolling Stone magazine, last week.
The newspaper also pointed to what Trump’s deputy, Vice, said when the “NBC” network asked him why the Trump administration ignored the intelligence estimates: “Of course we trust in our intelligence services, but we also trust our intuition.”
She stated that Vans defended Trump’s position as a collective position of the administration, but the fact is that Trump has always questioned the American intelligence services – a dispute dating back to his first term, when he rejected allegations of Russian pirates to help him win the elections, and it seemed ready to believe the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of his intelligence agencies.
In that same period, Trump rejected intelligence assessments and withdrawing the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the six global powers, and Trump also seemed to prefer his personal “feelings” over intelligence assessments on North Korea with the aim of staying with it.
The newspaper said that Trump’s history of confidence in his personal feelings on US intelligence seems to be strengthening doubts that he was personally influenced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has always repeated his allegations about Iranian nuclear weapons.
She considered that Trump’s interference in the case of damage to Iranian nuclear establishments is also very important, through his presentation of the novel, which is expected from intelligence agencies to adhere to him sincerely, Trump closes a door in front of actual investigations and collecting intelligence information.
And she added that while the US President is trying to adapt intelligence for his desires, the problem now is not that there is no team that achieves the authenticity of the information, but that it is now expected that the entire intelligence community will be a supporter of Trump.
