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In Bipartisan Bid to Restrain Trump, Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution
U.S. Jet That Crashed In Afghanistan Was No Ordinary 'Spy Plane'
The Mysterious Michael D’Andrea: Was the C.I.A.’s Iran Mission Center Chief Shot Down? - American Herald Tribune
When President Donald J. Trump ordered a drone strike to assassinate Gen. Qassim Suleimani, he did so with the identical Trumpian shoot-from-the hip flamboyancy and over-confident myopia that led him to fail as an airline owner and casino magnet. He and his "yes-men" advisors have always suffered from the delusion that Iran's military capability can be grouped along with all the other camel drivers and rock throwers in the Middle East like Libya and Lebanon. Fortunately, wiser heads on both sides of the aisle have prevailed to temporarily avert what could have escalated into a catastrophe.
In the ensuing weeks since Trump acted like John Cleese at the conclusion of A Fish Called Wanda, taunting the Iranians that he kicked their ass real good, they retaliated far more effectively and with far more capability than our military analysts had thought possible. While the well-scrubbed, rosy-cheeked Fox News right-wing propagandists were busy characterizing Iranian missiles as crude, inaccurate and low-yield, they were busy obliterating Saudi refineries and striking US bases in Iraq to within a meter of their target. However nothing could have sent the brass at Central Command in Tampa or the CIA in Langley a more frightening or solemn message than what happened high over the skies of Afghanistan.
The Bombardier E-11A can be described as a communications aircraft, but in-reality it is a spy plane. Based on the corporate Global Express, it can loiter at altitudes over 50,000-feet-- far above that of passenger jets-- for 10-hours or more. It has astonishing classified capabilities; it's been said it can detect when a Taliban terrorist deep in a cave phones his wife when he's coming home. One fine day in Florida while The Donald was perfecting his 9-iron approach shots at one of his green and grassy golf courses near Mar-a-Lago, ten-miles high over an inhospitable and mountainous country, a reconnaissance aircraft flown by the world's greatest superpower was shot-down by a supposed bunch of primitive, illiterate tribal rock-throwers.
But the real damage was far more than the loss of an aircraft and flight crew. Soon after the wreckage was photographed and posted online worldwide, news from various (reliable) international sources reported that one of the dead was Michael D' Andrea, CIA's head of Iran Mission Center. His biography reads like an Ian Fleming, James Bond novel or a Hollywood movie script. D' Andrea was The Spy Who Came in from The Cold and The Dark Prince. His strategic importance makes General Suleimani look like one of Joe Biden and John Wayne's dog-faced pony soldiers. Maybe, just maybe, in the recesses of CIA headquarters in Langley or at the Pentagon, some military analysts with actual human intelligence have connected the dots from Iran to Afghanistan. And that's why Congress is putting a straight jacket on Donald Trump.
U.S. Jet That Crashed In Afghanistan Was No Ordinary 'Spy Plane'
The Mysterious Michael D’Andrea: Was the C.I.A.’s Iran Mission Center Chief Shot Down? - American Herald Tribune
When President Donald J. Trump ordered a drone strike to assassinate Gen. Qassim Suleimani, he did so with the identical Trumpian shoot-from-the hip flamboyancy and over-confident myopia that led him to fail as an airline owner and casino magnet. He and his "yes-men" advisors have always suffered from the delusion that Iran's military capability can be grouped along with all the other camel drivers and rock throwers in the Middle East like Libya and Lebanon. Fortunately, wiser heads on both sides of the aisle have prevailed to temporarily avert what could have escalated into a catastrophe.
In the ensuing weeks since Trump acted like John Cleese at the conclusion of A Fish Called Wanda, taunting the Iranians that he kicked their ass real good, they retaliated far more effectively and with far more capability than our military analysts had thought possible. While the well-scrubbed, rosy-cheeked Fox News right-wing propagandists were busy characterizing Iranian missiles as crude, inaccurate and low-yield, they were busy obliterating Saudi refineries and striking US bases in Iraq to within a meter of their target. However nothing could have sent the brass at Central Command in Tampa or the CIA in Langley a more frightening or solemn message than what happened high over the skies of Afghanistan.
The Bombardier E-11A can be described as a communications aircraft, but in-reality it is a spy plane. Based on the corporate Global Express, it can loiter at altitudes over 50,000-feet-- far above that of passenger jets-- for 10-hours or more. It has astonishing classified capabilities; it's been said it can detect when a Taliban terrorist deep in a cave phones his wife when he's coming home. One fine day in Florida while The Donald was perfecting his 9-iron approach shots at one of his green and grassy golf courses near Mar-a-Lago, ten-miles high over an inhospitable and mountainous country, a reconnaissance aircraft flown by the world's greatest superpower was shot-down by a supposed bunch of primitive, illiterate tribal rock-throwers.
But the real damage was far more than the loss of an aircraft and flight crew. Soon after the wreckage was photographed and posted online worldwide, news from various (reliable) international sources reported that one of the dead was Michael D' Andrea, CIA's head of Iran Mission Center. His biography reads like an Ian Fleming, James Bond novel or a Hollywood movie script. D' Andrea was The Spy Who Came in from The Cold and The Dark Prince. His strategic importance makes General Suleimani look like one of Joe Biden and John Wayne's dog-faced pony soldiers. Maybe, just maybe, in the recesses of CIA headquarters in Langley or at the Pentagon, some military analysts with actual human intelligence have connected the dots from Iran to Afghanistan. And that's why Congress is putting a straight jacket on Donald Trump.