John Kiriakou

During the presidency of someone who could be pressured by Benjamin Netanyahu, where previous presidents couldn't.

And now we're in this war.

I'll give you two answers.

The first one, the easy one is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal asked President Trump two weeks ago.

who is your closest advisor on these politico-military issues?

And his answer was, I don't have an advisor.

I just trust my gut.

That is very, very dangerous.

You need a team of rivals.

You need the best and the brightest.

You need to surround yourself with the smartest thinkers on these issues.

And he hasn't done that.

That's answer number one.

Answer number two is, over the course of decades,

the CIA has been demonstrably weak in developing human intelligence inside Iran.

It's what we call a denied area where we can't just, you know, walk out of the American embassy in Tehran and, you know, target some Iranian government official for recruitment because there is no American embassy in Iran and there hasn't been since 1979.

And so we rely on

liaison services, which really means Mossad.

Now, if there's one thing Mossad's really, really great at, it's targeting intelligence, because they'll recruit every Afghan refugee in the country and give him $10 a month to just tell them where the generals live, where the nuclear scientists live, so they know where to target the cruise missiles.

On the other hand,