Ray McGovern

After dealing with the reassuring? news Trump announced just before the opening bell at the Stock Exchange, Judge asked about the Intel Community; I tried to throw light on the kinds of people who bubble up to the top, and redundant management after 9/11.

Nima and I this morning on Iran, including the chances of Netanyahu using nukes if, as seems likely, Tehran puts his back up against the wall. The role of intelligence, if any, in all this.

The three of us agreed Netanyahu is running this war and, in extremis, may go nuclear. Has Iran been working on a nuclear weapon? After 19 years of steadfast chastity, the prostitution of analysis on Iran by a malleable Director of National Intelligence.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/21/watch-the-world-this-week-w-ray-mcgovern-3/

Malleable Gabbard trashes 2-decade-old analysis that Iran is NOT working on a nuclear weapon. And she omits this key part of her own prepared statement: “Nuke enrichment was obliterated in June, with no effort to rebuild.” Sound like an “imminent threat”?

“It ain’t what you don’t know, it’s what you do know that ain’t so.” Most Americans “know” that Iran is the “World’s Leading Sponsor of Terrorism.” That ain’t so. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity tried to educate Donald Trump on that in 2017:

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/12/21/intel-vets-tell-trump-iran-is-not-top-terror-sponsor/

Will Gabbard change her tune to Congress on Iran & nukes, thus? Tulsi: “Last year we said Khamenei had not restarted nuke weapons program he stopped in 2003. Now he’s dead & Jr. might change that. So we pre-empted that possible ‘imminent threat’, ex ante.”

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5788405-trump-iran-threat-gabbard/

A factoid largely absent from “mainstream media”: If Netanyahu is eased out in the October Knesset elections, he will go directly to jail (will not pass “GO” to collect $200). Since Iran war for him (not to mention Israel) is existential, what will he do?

EGADS! WashPost Editors on Iran: “Declare victory & walk away; this would not be stretching the truth. Absent a formal peace, Trump keeps options open for future strikes. He just needs to stop doing things that make him look like he can’t finish the job.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/16/strait-of-hormuz-opening-iran-trump/

“Sweet little girls of Minab, were you fasting, hungry, thirsty when the tomahawk blew you to smithereens, burning you to ashes? Tell me, who has so much hatred in their hearts?” Thanks, Nima, for reminding us to stay human by adding this poem by Avideh.

Expect a FALSE-FLAG “terrorist” attack blamed on Iran in order to keep US enmeshed in Israel’s misbegotten war. With Israel’s very existence at stake, and Capo Donald ever more divorced from reality, Mossad could plant the “flag” & get help hiding its role

https://www.rt.com/news/634855-we-voted-for-walls-not-wars/