Annie Jacobsen

In other words, like sole presidential authority.

This current president is very enraptured with power and with prowess, with effectiveness.

And on the heels of Maduro and maybe even the cartel leader in Mexico—

I believe that the current president saw a moment of intense weakness that had been building, no doubt.

And in warring in general, when looking at it theoretically like myself, the decapitation strike is the ultimate strike.

It's literally like it sounds when you can—it comes from cut off the head of the snake.

And that is exactly what just happened.

Well, I cannot tell you why, but I can tell you what – we all know that this happened.

So if you reverse engineer what happened, I think it become – there's only one conclusion, which is that I would think the current president wanted to do this and was waiting –

Till he had the intelligence part of it is beyond remarkable.

Like how the CIA and NSA and, you know, probably DIA and NGA, all of these intelligence agencies, of which there are many, not just the CIA, were able to get that information to the president in that exact moment and make that strike and decapitate the leadership that has been in power since 1979.

Wow.

And I'm going to add to that further just for a moment, if I may, because on that point, the button on that is that if I watch the president, the current president's speeches to sort of, you know, discern things.

And you can often see, get your answer right there.

And in one of the speeches, either this morning or yesterday, he mentioned that the Ayatollah tried to kill him.

And it's – to me, it's like, oh, that's the tit for tat.

You know, again, top down or you could say schoolboy sandbox.

I say that as the mother of two boys.

You know, this human behavior that is way outside the norm of, you know, intelligence reports and assessments and these long monographs that may or may not actually be effective.

I mean –