The WSJ reports Israeli intelligence claims Iran moved THOUSANDS of centrifuges into tunnels under Pickaxe Mountain, and Trump answered from the podium: the mountain gets hit "probably pretty soon." The problem is not small.
The site sits so deep that even a tactical nuclear weapon reportedly could damage it without killing it.
Joe Kent resigned from this administration over this war, and he calls the uranium chase a moving goalpost.
Bomb this mountain and another site surfaces in another leak, forever, because enriched uranium can be buried but never bombed away.
Finishing that job takes boots on the ground, and ground operations, in his read, are more live now than at any point in the war.
The Israeli choreography sharpens the worry: a cabinet statement stepping back from the American campaign, a leak aiming every gun at one mountain, a prime minister freshly photographed at Dimona.
Deniability built in advance, he warns, for the day something far bigger than a bunker buster gets used and Washington gets to say it never knew.
Meanwhile, per the Telegraph and the Post, even the missile math gets hidden from the top.
The wild part?
The exit sits in plain sight: declare the 25 year setback, play the rally music, leave a hero.
He believes Trump knows it.
@joekent16jan19
