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Notable from the E-Bake
The Israeli military on Friday acknowledged that it attacked the T-4 air base in central Syria last month — killing at least seven Iranian revolutionary guards — as well as its ongoing intelligence and air campaign to prevent Tehran from carrying out reprisals for the strike.
The preemptive effort by the Israel Defense Forces is known collectively as “Operation Chess.”
According to the army, the specific target of the strike on the T-4 base was a shipment of advanced air defense weapons, including one with a range of 110 kilometers (70 miles). This appeared to confirm a Wall Street Journal report from April 18, which said a modern anti-aircraft system was hit in the attack, though not necessarily the same model.
Tehran has repeatedly vowed revenge after the T-4 base was struck in the Israeli air raid, killing at least seven members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Crops, including a senior officer responsible for the group’s drone program. Iran used the T-4 base to launch an attack drone carrying explosives into Israel in February, according to the IDF; the drone was shot down.
According to IDF assessments, in recent weeks Iran has stepped up its efforts to bring a number of advanced munitions into Syria, notably air defense systems, with which the IRGC could fire on Israeli fighter jets.
The anti-aircraft systems Iran has been bringing into Syria are meant to threaten Israel’s air superiority in the region, providing a cover for Iranian forces in Syria to carry out attacks against the Jewish state, the military believes.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-reveals-operation-chess-its-effort-to-thwart-iranian-reprisals-from-syria/
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Tip of the hat to @drawandstrike for letting the world know that Joe Pientka is a white hat.
It's been known for MONTHS there was another agent besides Peter Strzok at the Flynn interview, his name NEVER leaked. In over a YEAR. Then Grassley reveals this other agent's name today just before the IG report drops.
GIRD YOUR LOINS.
Ever since the Strzok/Page text message drama went public last October, it's been known there was another FBI agent present at the Michael Flynn interview on Jan. 24th, 2017.
And the IDENTITY OF THIS OTHER AGENT was carefully guarded, oh so carefully guarded secret. UNTIL NOW.
Remember when I told you Sessions & Horowitz and Huber don't leak ANYTHING?
NOTHING gets out from their investigations. Their hundreds of staff people simply don't LEAK anything.
Sessions practically rubbed the DNC Media's face in this fact earlier this year when casually dropped in a Fox interview that he'd appointed a prosecutor who was investigating stuff that Horowitz couldn't act on.
BUT HE DIDN'T TELL THE MEDIA THE GUY'S NAME.
Sessions let the DNC Media twist in the wind desperately trying to find out who it was so they could leak it.
And after about 13 days - almost TWO FULL WEEKS - they had NOTHING.
And then smirkin' Jeff Sessions revealed the prosecutor's name himself in a letter to Congress.
Now try this on for size. Sessions/Horowitz/Huber knew who this other FBI agent at the Flynn interview was over a year ago. They got to him early.
AND THEY KEPT HIS IDENTITY FROM LEAKING FOR OVER A YEAR.
Nobody was allowed to know who it was. No evidence was handed over.
Any text messages bearing his name, any official documents revealing his name were withheld.
This was to protect a whistleblower.
And the fact that Grassley has now gotten the go ahead to publicly reveal this FBI agent's name is HUGE.
The endgame is approaching. They can reveal who their whistleblower is because it's too late. The IG reports on the Clinton Email fiasco and the FISC Court scheme are dropping any day now.
After that, when the public has digested them, the indictments are unsealed.
FBI Agent Joe Pientka ALSO filed a FD 302 form following that interview with Michael Flynn.
Now Grassley is demanding to see both his & Strzok's FD 302 forms from that interview.
And he's going to get them.
Grassley assumes the 'ongoing criminal investigation' he discusses at the top of page 2 of his letter was the FBI's investigation into Flynn himself.
In fact, I suspect that's the investigation of who LEAKED that classified intelligence report on his calls with Kislyak.
Whaddup Big A
For John WDSHN