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Yes, ask their Mossad direct and local handlers (as per Mike Pompeo [1]) about how things are going, I’m sure that this being Mossad they have a ground-based wa
by paganel 10mo ago
Yes, ask their Mossad direct and local handlers (as per Mike Pompeo [1]) about how things are going, I’m sure that this being Mossad they have a ground-based way to get the information out.
[1] https://xcancel.com/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659 https://xcancel.com/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659
- woodruffw 10mo agoMike Pompeo is a private citizen; is there some reason to believe that he has direct knowledge of foreign involvement in these protests? It seems unlikely, and doubly so that he’d actually disclose it if he did.
- paganel 10mo agoYou and I are private citizens, he’s former US Secretary of State, let’s quit the charade.
- woodruffw 10mo ago“Former” is operative. I don’t see any reason to believe that Pompeo has special insider knowledge here, and sharing it makes zero sense even if he did. The more parsimonious explanation is that he’s a sidelined grifter whose only way to stay relevant is to speculate on social media.
- scottyah 10mo agoAfter reading Walter Isaacson's biography of US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, I would be extremely surprised to find that a former Secretary of State was suddenly out of the loop on major events.
- woodruffw 10mo agoHenry Kissinger was a notorious power broker, and basically remained "in the loop" until the day he died. Pompeo is neither of these things. But there's an even simpler way to reach this conclusion: given everything you and I know about Pompeo's politics, is there any reason to believe he'd want to introduce doubt about the legitimacy of popular protest in Iran?