John Kiriakou

Not really.

What I had been hoping for, having watched Donald Trump for the last six plus years, longer than six plus years, 10 plus years, I was hoping that he would declare victory and announce that the boys are coming home.

And that's not what we saw.

What we saw was that we're winning or we won, which I don't believe we are.

And and we're going to keep fighting for weeks.

That's probably going to stretch into into months.

But one of the things that really disturbed me the most was the president threatened again to attack Iran's infrastructure, specifically its electrical grid.

And that is quite literally a war crime.

It's very unusual for a president to go on TV and announce I'm going to commit a war crime.

But that's what we saw last night.

You know, and I think that we made a policy decision to accept and to believe Israeli intelligence at face value.

I think that the Israelis had a vested interest in lying to us and pulling us into this war to do their dirty work for them.

And that's exactly what happened.

The Iranians weren't the threat to us.

Seems to me like something might happen in the next two or three weeks.

You know, Megan, I have to say in all the years that I was in the CIA, literally every time an Israeli prime minister came to the United States and they come all the time.

Regardless of who happened to be the president, whether it was Ronald Reagan all the way into Donald Trump's first term, every single Israeli prime minister would come and say, please bomb Iran, please bomb Iran, please bomb Iran.

And every president would say, no, we're not going to bomb Iran.

until this president.

And the Israelis from 1986, the Israelis have been saying that the Iranians were six months away from a nuclear bomb.