New in SpyWeek: Dire Strait, Tulsi in Flight, Secret Service Woes
Also: Surveillance law hiccup, Starlinks for Iran, UK-Russia spy spat, Texas man crashes CIA
Inside Strait: U.S. intelligence gave President Trump everything they had on Iran before he went to war on Feb. 28: It wasn’t close to having a nuke, they said, and it didn’t have ICBMs that could hit the U.S. If America attacked, it could well respond with IRBMs and drones at its Gulf neighbors and shut the Strait of Hormuz. The regime also had a multi-layered, decentralized leadership system that could survive a massive decapitation strike, they said. What are they telling him now? “U.S. intelligence agencies are examining how Iran would respond if President Donald Trump unilaterally declared victory in the two-month-old war and moved to pull back from aggressive action against Tehran,” according to Reuters. (No, Vermont Sen. George Aitkin did not advise LBJ to just “declare victory and get out” of Vietnam.)
Secret Service (again): “A week after the shooting, authorities haven’t yet clearly explained what happened that night,” the Wall Street Journal observed on Sunday, recounting the Apr. 25 assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
