Shawn Ryan

They're going to put it through analytical tradecraft.

If you want to short circuit that, then you go directly to key decision makers and you say, hey, I've got some intel for you.

It hasn't gone through the intel channels.

And a lot of those senior decision makers, although they have access to 18 intelligence agencies and top senior clearances,

they're not familiar with intel and so they might not know that there's a vetting process that needs to take place or things are happening so quick they don't have time to think about it so the israelis with their access and again a lot of that access comes from the media it comes from the donors it comes from just a certain familiarity and comfort that we have with the israelis um they're they're able to to push that in there we get intel i mean the intel as you know it's it's not a hundred percent it's not always accurate but

When we get intelligence from the field, whether it's from a human source signal or a liaison, there's a vetting process that has to take place there before it goes in finished intel.

And then usually it's explained how we got the intel.

Again, the Israelis have done a really good job of putting an end run on that system to circumvent it.

That's a good question.

I mean, he, in theory, has control over who he has around him.

He's the president.

He's the commander-in-chief.

Yeah, clearly.

Or maybe he just doesn't want to hear it.

I don't know what the case is.

I think he got sold like a pretty clean equation.

They were like, hey, the protesters are protesting.

The Iranians at the negotiating table have said they still want to enrich.

Because, again, them moving that red line, the Israelis...

and their allies moving that red line and making Trump basically think that the U.S.