Senator Tom Cotton
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Senator Tom Cotton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We need a DNI who is
experienced and knowledgeable, respected, but Pulte is none of these things.
We have four more weeks with Director Gabbard as the DNI, and I look forward to implementing last year's Intelligence Authorization Act with her to implement wide-ranging reforms that will shrink the DNI and take it back to its original intent to provide a mere coordinator or process role for the intelligence community.
I have no observations on the matter.
I know that you reached out to both the White House and Peter Navarro, the White House advisor, about all of this.
What did they tell you?
Iran has always had a space launch program, which is flimsy cover for the first part of that intercontinental missile program.
I haven't seen any Iranian astronauts in space lately.
And second, they have medium range ballistic missiles, which already have a reentry vehicle.
So if you crudely married those two technologies together, I've heard some analysts say that Iran could have had a functioning intercontinental missile to threaten the United States in as few as six months.
Would you agree with that assessment?
Well, you're right to be concerned about Iran's development of longer range ballistic missiles, Senator.
If Iran were allowed to develop at the IRBM ranges, which is 3,000 kilometers, it would threaten most of Europe.
Thank you, Ben.
Well, Ben, first, I just want to stress what a danger Iran has been to the United States for 47 years.
One of their first acts after the revolution was to seize our embassy and hold our fellow citizens hostage for over 400 days.
They blew up the Beirut Marine Barracks.
They blew up the Khobar Towers.
You mentioned my service in the army.
By the time I was in Iraq in 2006, our armor could protect against most roadside bombs, except for extremely dangerous ones from Iran that killed or maimed thousands of Americans.
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