The president who promised “I am your retribution” is getting it, and everyone is paying for it.
Last week, while the Iran attack was already approved, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen counterintelligence staffers because they worked on the classified documents investigation. They were also Iran experts, the squad that tracked Iranian retaliation in America after the Soleimani strike.
Now embassies are burning in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, seven countries are defending against Iranian attacks, and Trump admitted the strikes killed so many Iranian leaders that “second or third place is dead,” leaving nobody to negotiate with. The FBI built a team to protect us from any retaliation in America, and Patel gutted it for a grudge while the war was already decided.
Call your representatives and demand they invoke the War Powers Act. Ask who is protecting the homeland now that the FBI’s Iran team is weaker because Kash Patel had a score to settle days before a war the White House had already decided to start.
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