
Anna Kelly
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Anna Kelly
@AnnaKelly47
Special Assistant to the President and White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary


AP follows the @NOTUSreports piece on how the Trump administration had already gutted the State Dept’s staff of Middle East policy experts — and “eliminated the dedicated Iran office ..” @AP apnews.com/article/iran-s…


The Secretary of Defense tells the American public to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke Jesus' name....











Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."


After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.



“They went into this war prepared for certain threats, like missiles. They did not go into this war prepared for other threats like drones hitting soft targets,” says Mara Karlin, a former Pentagon official. cbsn.ws/4bavb6G


Trump is trying to smear news outlets as "unpatriotic" for scrutinizing the Iran war. Of course, attempts to deter and discredit wartime reporting by questioning journalists' patriotism are as old as war coverage itself. But most Americans see through that type of ugly rhetoric

Just had a brief phone call with @potus this morning and asked him several questions about Iran. He noted when he answered that it was not a good time to chat because he was in the middle of a "very important meeting" about it - but said the following:

