At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, CIA Director Mike Pompeo fielded a disturbing question from ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA): “Has the intelligence community assessed how the North Korean regime would react to a preventive United States attack?”
“We have,” Pompeo replied. “I would prefer to share that with you in closed session this afternoon.”
In open session though, Pompeo elaborated slightly: “We have written about various forms of actions,” he said. The intelligence community had also measured “the certainty and uncertainty we have around that analysis, as well as what we think happens in the event that the United States decides not to do that and continues to allow Kim Jong-un to develop his nuclear weapons arsenal,” Pompeo told the committee.
Feinstein pressed him further: “Have you explored what it would take to bring them to the table?” she asked.
“We have,” Pompeo said. “I’d prefer to share that with you in closed session.”
Take a DEEP BREATH people.
The “Agencies” do this ALL THE TIME.
It is one of their reasons for existence after all.
Hell, they have “assessed the reaction” of ENGLAND to a first strike by the US on them, and Canada, and Russian, and China, and France, and India, and Pakistan, and just about everybody else in the world.
The scary part is what the Orange ShitGibbon will DO with this information.
I am not sure what its supposed to be disturbing here. This is precisely what the CIA is supposed to do. Perform analysis on multiple scenarios.
Pompeo refusing material compromising Trump however…or inviting the three top Russian intelligence agents to come share information, ahead of the 2018 election…THOSE are troubling events involving Pompeo.
“Has the intelligence community assessed how the North Korean regime would react to a preventive United States attack?”
“Yes. It is the assessment and consensus of the intelligence community that North Korea would be, in technical terms, ‘really pissed off’ and would most definitely react with more than an insulting tweet.”
Years ago, cartoonist/satarist Jules Feifer once ran a strip that read roughly as follows:
And so the scientists invented a weapon so powerful…
That if detonated, it could destroy the entire world.
But first, they had to test it.
…and it worked!
Dr. Strangelove clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4I’m gonna go with, “Trump is the Commander-in-Chief.”
Trump is the kind of psychopathic maniac who makes other psychopathic maniacs sit up and say…
“Now there’s a psychopathic maniac!”