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Barrett eviscerates Jackson, Sotomayor takes on a 'complicit' court in contentious final opinions
Justice Barrett accuses Justice Jackson of embracing "imperial judiciary" in Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions related to Trump's birthright policy.
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CELLFISH
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da New York Times hardly ever wrote of the Jewish oppression and holocaust during WWll and afterwards... cell...
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CELLFISH
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Barrett eviscerates Jackson, Sotomayor takes on a 'complicit' court in contentious final opinions
Justice Barrett accuses Justice Jackson of embracing "imperial judiciary" in Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions related to Trump's birthright policy.
what'd ya expect... cell...
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Interesting post. Trump has been doing really well with the fake news cases. Laws are being broken and the courts are seeing it that way. Not a reason to "hate".
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Final day of SCOTUS decisions brings wave of history-making rulings
The Supreme Court's last decision day of its term involved the justices reining in judicial power and serving up a victory for parents in the ongoing culture wars.
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Constitution prevails.
wader
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Oh web they may have trapped themselves in.........................
If they had only said it's too early to tell. We will need some time to assess the information (as the military originally said).
The Trump administration is running into a problem as it touts the U.S. strikes in Iran as an unqualified triumph: It hasn’t yet provided clear evidence to prove it.
The effort began after a preliminary classified U.S. intelligence assessment that leaked to the press appeared to undercut Trump’s assertions the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.
In the last 36 hours, Trump and his aides have sparred with the news media, rushed out new statements from intelligence chiefs to counter the leaked report, and called a press conference to detail the many years of planning that went into the strike.
So far, officials have not been able to publicly provide convincing evidence that the entirety of Iran’s sprawling nuclear program was destroyed — a conclusion that would likely take spy agencies weeks if not months to establish. Assessments they have offered are light on details and flit between ambiguous language about whether Tehran’s nuclear program has been destroyed or just experienced a major setback — a lesser achievement.
Moreover, in working to debunk the leaked assessment saying Iran’s nuclear program may have only been set back months, Trump administration officials have stressed that it is too early to evaluate the strikes — though that’s precisely what they are trying to do.
Here’s where the administration’s messages on Iran stand, why their case is proving so hard to prosecute and when we may know more about the status of Iran’s nuclear program.
In rebutting the leaked assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency — which reportedly estimated Iran’s nuclear program was likely only set back a few months — senior Cabinet officials have stressed the difficulty of compiling credible intelligence so quickly.
At a Pentagon press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reminded reporters that the DIA report was a “preliminary and low confidence” assessment drawn up only a day-and-a-half after the attacks.
Paraphrasing from a copy of the assessment he held at the podium, he also noted the report “admits itself in writing that it takes weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.”
Yet Hegseth went on in the same briefing to do just that: “Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war. Decimating — choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Nuclear weapons experts and intelligence analysts have argued that weeks or longer is a more realistic time frame to be able to make such a conclusion.
Intelligence agencies, international nuclear weapons inspectors, and independent analysts all have had near-immediate access to overhead imagery of the strikes. But they would need intelligence from other highly sensitive sources, including humans on site, to determine the full extent of the damage.
That could prove especially difficult given that Iran doesn’t appear keen to let the world know how much damage its nuclear program has suffered. Iran’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Still, many suspect Iran still retains a large stockpile of heavily enriched uranium and uninstalled centrifuges it can use to make a bomb.
Satellite images taken in the days before the strikes show lines of trucks at two of the sites that were hit — Fordo and Isfahan — leaving open the possibility Iran smuggled out key components of its nuclear program before the U.S. attack.
When pressed by journalists on Thursday morning, Hegseth said that he was “not aware of any intelligence that I've reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise.”
And while White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said during prepared remarks later in the day “there was no indication” Iran moved any enriched uranium before the strikes, the administration hasn’t convinced skeptics it didn’t do that, either.
Senior Trump national security officials delivered a closed briefing to senators on the Iran strikes Thursday. Speaking with reporters afterwards, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said it was “obvious” the strikes didn’t destroy all of Iran’s enriched uranium.
“It was clear long before this brief, that some of the enriched uranium was never going to be taken out by a bunker buster bomb,”said Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Rafael Grossi, the chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference Wednesday that it’s possible Iran's highly enriched uranium is "still there."
And even Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated the stockpile may still be available to the Iranians. “It was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium or to seize it or anything else,” Cotton said. “Again, it's not a Mission Impossible movie.”
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if interested - which I doubt more here
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Bless the US Military that carried out this brilliant strike.
Too bad the Administration decided to flap their uninformed gums without full evaluation of what was achieved.
If they had only said it's too early to tell. We will need some time to assess the information (as the military originally said).
The administration is struggling to back up Trump’s bold claims on Iran strikes
The Trump administration is running into a problem as it touts the U.S. strikes in Iran as an unqualified triumph: It hasn’t yet provided clear evidence to prove it.
The effort began after a preliminary classified U.S. intelligence assessment that leaked to the press appeared to undercut Trump’s assertions the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.
In the last 36 hours, Trump and his aides have sparred with the news media, rushed out new statements from intelligence chiefs to counter the leaked report, and called a press conference to detail the many years of planning that went into the strike.
So far, officials have not been able to publicly provide convincing evidence that the entirety of Iran’s sprawling nuclear program was destroyed — a conclusion that would likely take spy agencies weeks if not months to establish. Assessments they have offered are light on details and flit between ambiguous language about whether Tehran’s nuclear program has been destroyed or just experienced a major setback — a lesser achievement.
Moreover, in working to debunk the leaked assessment saying Iran’s nuclear program may have only been set back months, Trump administration officials have stressed that it is too early to evaluate the strikes — though that’s precisely what they are trying to do.
Here’s where the administration’s messages on Iran stand, why their case is proving so hard to prosecute and when we may know more about the status of Iran’s nuclear program.
The ‘too-early’ trap
In rebutting the leaked assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency — which reportedly estimated Iran’s nuclear program was likely only set back a few months — senior Cabinet officials have stressed the difficulty of compiling credible intelligence so quickly.
At a Pentagon press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reminded reporters that the DIA report was a “preliminary and low confidence” assessment drawn up only a day-and-a-half after the attacks.
Paraphrasing from a copy of the assessment he held at the podium, he also noted the report “admits itself in writing that it takes weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.”
Yet Hegseth went on in the same briefing to do just that: “Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war. Decimating — choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Nuclear weapons experts and intelligence analysts have argued that weeks or longer is a more realistic time frame to be able to make such a conclusion.
Intelligence agencies, international nuclear weapons inspectors, and independent analysts all have had near-immediate access to overhead imagery of the strikes. But they would need intelligence from other highly sensitive sources, including humans on site, to determine the full extent of the damage.
That could prove especially difficult given that Iran doesn’t appear keen to let the world know how much damage its nuclear program has suffered. Iran’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Whither the uranium
Top Trump officials’ assessments have mostly focused on the strikes successfully hitting nuclear facilities that enrich uranium, manufacture uranium metal and produce reactor fuel.Still, many suspect Iran still retains a large stockpile of heavily enriched uranium and uninstalled centrifuges it can use to make a bomb.
Satellite images taken in the days before the strikes show lines of trucks at two of the sites that were hit — Fordo and Isfahan — leaving open the possibility Iran smuggled out key components of its nuclear program before the U.S. attack.
When pressed by journalists on Thursday morning, Hegseth said that he was “not aware of any intelligence that I've reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise.”
And while White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said during prepared remarks later in the day “there was no indication” Iran moved any enriched uranium before the strikes, the administration hasn’t convinced skeptics it didn’t do that, either.
Senior Trump national security officials delivered a closed briefing to senators on the Iran strikes Thursday. Speaking with reporters afterwards, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said it was “obvious” the strikes didn’t destroy all of Iran’s enriched uranium.
“It was clear long before this brief, that some of the enriched uranium was never going to be taken out by a bunker buster bomb,”said Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Rafael Grossi, the chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference Wednesday that it’s possible Iran's highly enriched uranium is "still there."
And even Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated the stockpile may still be available to the Iranians. “It was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium or to seize it or anything else,” Cotton said. “Again, it's not a Mission Impossible movie.”
A nuclear program can be bigger than three facilities
Trump has claimed any nuclear effort by Iran has been halted, saying, for example, in a social media post Thursday: “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability.” He has also said that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back “basically decades.”=================
if interested - which I doubt more here
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Bless the US Military that carried out this brilliant strike.
Too bad the Administration decided to flap their uninformed gums without full evaluation of what was achieved.
My God you post the same shit over and over get over it all ready and find new BS to postOh web they may have trapped themselves in.........................
If they had only said it's too early to tell. We will need some time to assess the information (as the military originally said).
The administration is struggling to back up Trump’s bold claims on Iran strikes
The Trump administration is running into a problem as it touts the U.S. strikes in Iran as an unqualified triumph: It hasn’t yet provided clear evidence to prove it.
The effort began after a preliminary classified U.S. intelligence assessment that leaked to the press appeared to undercut Trump’s assertions the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.
In the last 36 hours, Trump and his aides have sparred with the news media, rushed out new statements from intelligence chiefs to counter the leaked report, and called a press conference to detail the many years of planning that went into the strike.
So far, officials have not been able to publicly provide convincing evidence that the entirety of Iran’s sprawling nuclear program was destroyed — a conclusion that would likely take spy agencies weeks if not months to establish. Assessments they have offered are light on details and flit between ambiguous language about whether Tehran’s nuclear program has been destroyed or just experienced a major setback — a lesser achievement.
Moreover, in working to debunk the leaked assessment saying Iran’s nuclear program may have only been set back months, Trump administration officials have stressed that it is too early to evaluate the strikes — though that’s precisely what they are trying to do.
Here’s where the administration’s messages on Iran stand, why their case is proving so hard to prosecute and when we may know more about the status of Iran’s nuclear program.
The ‘too-early’ trap
In rebutting the leaked assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency — which reportedly estimated Iran’s nuclear program was likely only set back a few months — senior Cabinet officials have stressed the difficulty of compiling credible intelligence so quickly.
At a Pentagon press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reminded reporters that the DIA report was a “preliminary and low confidence” assessment drawn up only a day-and-a-half after the attacks.
Paraphrasing from a copy of the assessment he held at the podium, he also noted the report “admits itself in writing that it takes weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.”
Yet Hegseth went on in the same briefing to do just that: “Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war. Decimating — choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Nuclear weapons experts and intelligence analysts have argued that weeks or longer is a more realistic time frame to be able to make such a conclusion.
Intelligence agencies, international nuclear weapons inspectors, and independent analysts all have had near-immediate access to overhead imagery of the strikes. But they would need intelligence from other highly sensitive sources, including humans on site, to determine the full extent of the damage.
That could prove especially difficult given that Iran doesn’t appear keen to let the world know how much damage its nuclear program has suffered. Iran’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Whither the uranium
Top Trump officials’ assessments have mostly focused on the strikes successfully hitting nuclear facilities that enrich uranium, manufacture uranium metal and produce reactor fuel.
Still, many suspect Iran still retains a large stockpile of heavily enriched uranium and uninstalled centrifuges it can use to make a bomb.
Satellite images taken in the days before the strikes show lines of trucks at two of the sites that were hit — Fordo and Isfahan — leaving open the possibility Iran smuggled out key components of its nuclear program before the U.S. attack.
When pressed by journalists on Thursday morning, Hegseth said that he was “not aware of any intelligence that I've reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise.”
And while White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said during prepared remarks later in the day “there was no indication” Iran moved any enriched uranium before the strikes, the administration hasn’t convinced skeptics it didn’t do that, either.
Senior Trump national security officials delivered a closed briefing to senators on the Iran strikes Thursday. Speaking with reporters afterwards, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said it was “obvious” the strikes didn’t destroy all of Iran’s enriched uranium.
“It was clear long before this brief, that some of the enriched uranium was never going to be taken out by a bunker buster bomb,”said Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Rafael Grossi, the chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference Wednesday that it’s possible Iran's highly enriched uranium is "still there."
And even Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated the stockpile may still be available to the Iranians. “It was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium or to seize it or anything else,” Cotton said. “Again, it's not a Mission Impossible movie.”
A nuclear program can be bigger than three facilities
Trump has claimed any nuclear effort by Iran has been halted, saying, for example, in a social media post Thursday: “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability.” He has also said that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back “basically decades.”
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if interested - which I doubt more here
=================
Bless the US Military that carried out this brilliant strike.
Too bad the Administration decided to flap their uninformed gums without full evaluation of what was achieved.
longcast
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He enjoys disparaging the work our military did over there.
While he sits Onacock over here.
What, that be happening in the Onacock YMCA???
Rick67
Well-Known Angler
So currently it goes like this. If you say you have it, I take it you have it. You were warned you couldn’t have it and I don’t bluff. You were given 60 days to comply. On the 61st I reacted. HELLO! Smh.Oh web they may have trapped themselves in.........................
If they had only said it's too early to tell. We will need some time to assess the information (as the military originally said).
The administration is struggling to back up Trump’s bold claims on Iran strikes
The Trump administration is running into a problem as it touts the U.S. strikes in Iran as an unqualified triumph: It hasn’t yet provided clear evidence to prove it.
The effort began after a preliminary classified U.S. intelligence assessment that leaked to the press appeared to undercut Trump’s assertions the strikes had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program.
In the last 36 hours, Trump and his aides have sparred with the news media, rushed out new statements from intelligence chiefs to counter the leaked report, and called a press conference to detail the many years of planning that went into the strike.
So far, officials have not been able to publicly provide convincing evidence that the entirety of Iran’s sprawling nuclear program was destroyed — a conclusion that would likely take spy agencies weeks if not months to establish. Assessments they have offered are light on details and flit between ambiguous language about whether Tehran’s nuclear program has been destroyed or just experienced a major setback — a lesser achievement.
Moreover, in working to debunk the leaked assessment saying Iran’s nuclear program may have only been set back months, Trump administration officials have stressed that it is too early to evaluate the strikes — though that’s precisely what they are trying to do.
Here’s where the administration’s messages on Iran stand, why their case is proving so hard to prosecute and when we may know more about the status of Iran’s nuclear program.
The ‘too-early’ trap
In rebutting the leaked assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency — which reportedly estimated Iran’s nuclear program was likely only set back a few months — senior Cabinet officials have stressed the difficulty of compiling credible intelligence so quickly.
At a Pentagon press conference Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reminded reporters that the DIA report was a “preliminary and low confidence” assessment drawn up only a day-and-a-half after the attacks.
Paraphrasing from a copy of the assessment he held at the podium, he also noted the report “admits itself in writing that it takes weeks to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment.”
Yet Hegseth went on in the same briefing to do just that: “Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions to end the war. Decimating — choose your word, obliterating, destroying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.”
Nuclear weapons experts and intelligence analysts have argued that weeks or longer is a more realistic time frame to be able to make such a conclusion.
Intelligence agencies, international nuclear weapons inspectors, and independent analysts all have had near-immediate access to overhead imagery of the strikes. But they would need intelligence from other highly sensitive sources, including humans on site, to determine the full extent of the damage.
That could prove especially difficult given that Iran doesn’t appear keen to let the world know how much damage its nuclear program has suffered. Iran’s parliament voted Wednesday to suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Whither the uranium
Top Trump officials’ assessments have mostly focused on the strikes successfully hitting nuclear facilities that enrich uranium, manufacture uranium metal and produce reactor fuel.
Still, many suspect Iran still retains a large stockpile of heavily enriched uranium and uninstalled centrifuges it can use to make a bomb.
Satellite images taken in the days before the strikes show lines of trucks at two of the sites that were hit — Fordo and Isfahan — leaving open the possibility Iran smuggled out key components of its nuclear program before the U.S. attack.
When pressed by journalists on Thursday morning, Hegseth said that he was “not aware of any intelligence that I've reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed to be, moved or otherwise.”
And while White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said during prepared remarks later in the day “there was no indication” Iran moved any enriched uranium before the strikes, the administration hasn’t convinced skeptics it didn’t do that, either.
Senior Trump national security officials delivered a closed briefing to senators on the Iran strikes Thursday. Speaking with reporters afterwards, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said it was “obvious” the strikes didn’t destroy all of Iran’s enriched uranium.
“It was clear long before this brief, that some of the enriched uranium was never going to be taken out by a bunker buster bomb,”said Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Rafael Grossi, the chair of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference Wednesday that it’s possible Iran's highly enriched uranium is "still there."
And even Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated the stockpile may still be available to the Iranians. “It was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium or to seize it or anything else,” Cotton said. “Again, it's not a Mission Impossible movie.”
A nuclear program can be bigger than three facilities
Trump has claimed any nuclear effort by Iran has been halted, saying, for example, in a social media post Thursday: “It was my great honor to Destroy All Nuclear facilities & capability.” He has also said that Iran’s nuclear program has been set back “basically decades.”
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if interested - which I doubt more here
=================
Bless the US Military that carried out this brilliant strike.
Too bad the Administration decided to flap their uninformed gums without full evaluation of what was achieved.
Make believe we were trying to impress the Middle East. We put out on Al Jazeera “Gay Is Now Illegal in USA” and we tossed every last one of them off the rooftops in respect for the Qurans teachings.. However no one came to Onacock to do no such thing. Do you say in public “Yeah But?” Yes they are that dumb wader.
Half mile below ground and they dropped them right down vents. Fucking awesome! Did you notice no reference to the barely legal to drink chick being one of the B-2 pilots? It’s about ability and not firsts again.
wader
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you're a fucking asshole you know it?
You didn't even bother to read the piece but like your President you flap your gums anyway. read the second to last sentence idiot.
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Ask the source.
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Oh, you need to calm down. Of course I read the fake news reports. And yeah, fake news.
wader
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bullshit - if you had you wouldn't have made the idiotic statement you did
Fake News?
Fake Response/Uneducated Response.........
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