Joe Kent

Problem is the Israelis are going to come right back to us in, you know, a couple months and demand more because their goal is regime change.

Like they're not beating around the bush about this.

And so that was known.

And so from my optic in the lead up to this last iteration, that process didn't play out.

And people can say, oh, Kent doesn't know because he wasn't invited.

But I can tell you the robust debate with the deputies committees and National Security Council that just that simply wasn't happening.

I wanted people to be able to see what their tax dollars were being used for.

Sunlight's the greatest disinfectant.

they would uncover a disturbing pattern.

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Was this before he wrote his stories?

It must have been.

So to non-nerd speak, I think this is important.

What you just laid out is a normal process.

The Deputies Committee, Principals Committee, NSC, all options and views are presented to the president.

Even the Iraq War, the most disastrous thing in the world, or at least in my lifetime.

That played out that way.

That's how it did.

You can go and you can read about it.

What you are talking about is effectively a bespoke process, which played out with some advisors down in Mar-a-Lago, others in the Situation Room.