Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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It means that every other intelligence that comes from every other agency inside the DOD, inside the national security infrastructure, has to come through CIA.
Only CIA produces the final product for the president.
So therefore, everything is CIA.
And CIA is the one that's in charge of maintaining foreign relationships with foreign intelligence services.
So when Israel has an intelligence report that they share with the U.S.
president, it goes through the CIA.
So all credit and all blame always goes to CIA.
That doesn't mean CIA actually had the intelligence themselves.
The number one most informed country in the world on the goings on in Iran is Israel.
Tell me if I'm wrong.
No, I would agree with that.
There's no way the United States would have been able to launch against Iran without close coordination and incredible intelligence support from Israel.
So why does it matter?
Because it means that Israel could be directing the activities of the U.S.
military by the intelligence they select to give to the president.
So I wouldn't take that step.
I don't think Israel has a monopoly on intelligence provided.
We know that MI6 has also historically been very active and very capable, probably more so than CIA has been, and in large part because the British government has an embassy, has diplomatic ties, has trade and economic ties with Iran.
And the Islamic regime has seen the UK as an effective sort of pipeline or conduit to the United States and has used that in the past.
Sometimes...
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