Tulsi Gabbard, the recently resigned/retired/fired US Director of National Intelligence, told Congress just two months ago that US intelligence agencies had concluded Iran was not building nuclear weapons. Indeed, she added, experts also determined Iran had not resumed its suspended 2003 nuclear weapons programme.
However, Donald Trump said she was "wrong". His claim that "Iran would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks to four weeks" had been his justification, however improbable, for attacking Iran on Feb 28. Ms Gabbard went silent.
When Mr Trump started up again last week, saying that Iran has a "maximum" of two weeks to sign a deal on its nuclear activities or else he restarts his war, Ms Gabbard backed his lies. Iran is "at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months," she said. She's loyal to the end, but this is so stupid that it's insulting.
