Ray McGovern

Need further proof that Israel believes it has carte blanche from Trump to finish off Iran – to include using nukes? Watch the clip of the gagged State Dept official abruptly summoned from the motor pool to testify w/no comb; and the cameo of Pat Buchanan.

US Veterans, from Vietnam to Iraq, know how wars have been based on “contradicted or even non-existent” intelligence (Senate bipartisan report on Iraq, 2008). Now a top official quits, says the president was “deceived into believing Iran posed an imminent threat. Presenting the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment to Congress, the National Intelligence Director parried questions about “immediate threat”. Speakers (all veterans) include:

• GySgt Bryce Lockwood, US Marines (Ret.) Survivor USS Liberty

• LTC Anthony Aguilar, USA (Ret.)

• CCM, CMSgt Dennis Fritz, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

• Josie Guilbeau, Frmr U.S. Army All-Source Intel Analyst

• Ray McGovern, Frmr CIA Presidential Daily Briefer

Mario and Ray: WHY attack Iran. One recent title: “It’s Israel, stupid!” Israel also was the prime mover of the 2003 Attack on Iraq, but that was not quite as clear then. Rubio says, in effect, the Israelis made us do it; Joe Kent says the same – and quit.

After dealing with the reassuring? news Trump announced just before the opening bell at the Stock Exchange, Judge asked about the Intel Community; I tried to throw light on the kinds of people who bubble up to the top, and redundant management after 9/11.

Nima and I this morning on Iran, including the chances of Netanyahu using nukes if, as seems likely, Tehran puts his back up against the wall. The role of intelligence, if any, in all this.

The three of us agreed Netanyahu is running this war and, in extremis, may go nuclear. Has Iran been working on a nuclear weapon? After 19 years of steadfast chastity, the prostitution of analysis on Iran by a malleable Director of National Intelligence.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/21/watch-the-world-this-week-w-ray-mcgovern-3/

Malleable Gabbard trashes 2-decade-old analysis that Iran is NOT working on a nuclear weapon. And she omits this key part of her own prepared statement: “Nuke enrichment was obliterated in June, with no effort to rebuild.” Sound like an “imminent threat”?

“It ain’t what you don’t know, it’s what you do know that ain’t so.” Most Americans “know” that Iran is the “World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism.” That ain’t so. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity tried to educate Donald Trump on that in 2017:

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/12/21/intel-vets-tell-trump-iran-is-not-top-terror-sponsor/

Will Gabbard change her tune to Congress on Iran & nukes, thus? Tulsi: “Last year we said Khamenei had not restarted nuke weapons program he stopped in 2003. Now he’s dead & Jr. might change that. So we pre-empted that possible ‘imminent threat’, ex ante.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5788405-trump-iran-threat-gabbard/

A factoid largely absent from “mainstream media”: If Netanyahu is eased out in the October Knesset elections, he will go directly to jail (will not pass “GO” to collect $200). Since Iran war for him (not to mention Israel) is existential, what will he do?