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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 12:37 PM Feb 2018

Pompeo: Agencies Have Assessed North Korean Reaction to 'Preventive' Strike

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Sam Thielman | February 13, 2018 11:00 am

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.”

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Pompeo: Agencies Have Assessed North Korean Reaction to 'Preventive' Strike (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2018 OP
No question the traitor is keeping a first strike in his back pocket if needed to avoid Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1
Pied Piper Trump Plucketeer Feb 2018 #3
A living will and an estate plan are vital documents bucolic_frolic Feb 2018 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,087 posts)
1. No question the traitor is keeping a first strike in his back pocket if needed to avoid
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 12:40 PM
Feb 2018

justice.

Though not sure how Putin would react to that. Tough to be a traitor and finding yourself between rock and cement wall.

Fortunately for trump the entire Republican Party are now also traitors so they will assist him.

bucolic_frolic

(42,478 posts)
2. A living will and an estate plan are vital documents
Tue Feb 13, 2018, 12:40 PM
Feb 2018

That's how ordinary people should plan for these events

Just in case you wind up with the brightest glow in the whole damn cemetery!

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