Task Force 18

Project Cassandra, Convergence of Terror and Crime, cats, dogs, weather...

[Task Force 18 @TaskForce_18]

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Award winning journalist @MilesMJohnson book Chasing Shadows covers Project Cassandra. Detailing how DEA and an International Task Force followed a trail of dirty money across continents and uncovered how Hezbollah leveraged the cocaine trade to fund its operations, including military interventions and terrorist activities.

[Chairwoman Lisa McClain @RepLisaMcClain]

You have to SEE THIS to believe it. 🇺🇸

This week on the Severn River near Annapolis, a man was knocked overboard and his boat took off with the engine still running, racing and circling with no one at the controls. As his son sped through the water to pull him to safety, a Coast Guard crew chased down the runaway vessel, pinned it during a turn, and one brave officer LEAPT aboard the speeding boat to shut it down.

Ordinary Americans and the heroes who protect them, rising to the moment together. THIS is who we are. Share it!

[Brad Bowman @Brad_L_Bowman]

If you want a straightforward way to assess the merits of any prospective deal with Iran, start with METRICS

M - Missiles. They are the primary means by which the regime conducts attacks and would deliver a nuclear weapon. A good deal must explicitly restrict the regime's missile arsenal. Both the regime's missile production capacity and the size and capabilities of its arsenal (missiles and especially launchers) must be restricted in the deal. The deal must also restrict space-launch activities, including those with Russian help. They facilitate intelligence collection and attacks and help the regime move toward an ICBM capability.

E - Enrichment. A good deal must prohibit ALL enrichment and remove ALL nuclear material from Iran. There should also be a ban on the existence or construction of hardened and deeply buried facilities that can be used for enrichment.

T - Terrorism. A good deal must verifiably end the regime's systematic and longstanding support for terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and the Houthis.

RI - Regime Inspection. Any deal is only as good as its inspection regime. The deal must include an 'anytime, anywhere' inspection regime, including of military bases. Otherwise, we can have no confidence Iran is honoring its commitments.

C - Consequences. The deal must include explicit, specific, automatic, painful, and quick consequences for violations. Multilateral consequences are better than unilateral ones.

S - Sunset Clauses. All key commitments in the deal must be permanent and the deal should not include sunset clauses.

[Derek Maltz Sr @derekmaltz_sr]

The chemical attack against America continues. Deadly synthetic drugs like fentanyl are poisoning our communities and killing Americans every day. If anyone questions why the Mexican cartels were designated as terrorists, take a look at the video below.

These criminal networks manufacture, traffic, and profit from substances that have caused mass casualties across our nation. Fentanyl is not just a drug crisis but rather a historic national security threat. The scale of death and destruction has led @FafFentanyl founder Jim Rauh and other grieving families to describe it as a modern day weapon of mass destruction because of its unprecedented lethality.

America must continue to treat this threat with the urgency it demands.

Thanks @GameOfCrimes for helping to spread the important messages.

#Cartels #NationalSecurity #CounterCartel #PublicSafety #FentnaylFreeAmerica

@ONDCP
@DEAHQ

[The Pets 𝕏 @ThePetsX]

This is how cats pay rent

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

Trump Told Iranians to Keep Protesting. Then He Abandoned Their Cause @washinstitute https://t.co/zlHVP1uz7z

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

Trump gets it backwards: Hezbollah has been fighting Israel for too long, not the other way around. Address the persistent threat Hezbollah poses to both Israel & Lebanon, then the fighting stops & Lebanon & Israel can really pursue peace.

Here Trump undermines his own admin's success bring Israelis & Lebanese together to sideline Hezbollah

[Michael P Pregent @MPPregent]

He knows as much about Wendy Sherman as he does about WWII ending... and yet... he is her.

[Mike Nelson @mikenelson586]

People reading Ratcliffe's warning that the Iranians might not be trustworthy

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

Trump thinks he can solve the Israel-Lebanon "thing" if he talks to Hezbollah. He misunderstands Hezbollah

[David Albright @DAVIDHALBRIGHT1]

Downblend Recoverable Enriched Uranium to What? Better Just Ship It Out

The public discussion about downblending Iran's recoverable enriched uranium always leaves out the biggest factor: Downblending to what? Then what? The logical choice is natural uranium hexafluoride and then ship it out.* Other choices, such as downblending the 20 and 60 percent to 4 to 5 percent enriched uranium, would still leave Iran with a tremendous breakout capability. This material would be over 70 percent of the way to weapon-grade uranium and require the material to be shipped out. Proposals to downblend only the 60% to 20% enriched uranium are laughable, unless it and all other enriched uranium hexafluoride were rapidly shipped out to another country.  If that is the case, why bother downblending at all; just ship out any recoverable enriched uranium in its present form.

The relatively small amount of 20% enriched uranium fuel already in or made for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR) fuel could remain in Iran. Moreover, we showed recently that Iran has enough TRR fuel in hand, in pieces, or in Russia (under JCPOA) in pieces for many years of TRR operation. There is no need to make more; and Iran can’t make any more in any case due to damage from the war. Thus, there is no need for Iran to keep any 20 percent enriched uranium hexafluoride or any 20 percent enriched uranium oxide outside existing TRR fuel rods or elements.

* In theory, because of mass conservation, Iran has enough depleted uranium hexafluoride to down blend all its enriched uranium hexafluoride to natural uranium hexafluoride. If for practical reasons, it cannot recover enough depleted uranium hexafluoride from the wreckage, there are zillions of tons of depleted uranium in many countries, including Russia, that could be sent to Iran for use in downblending enriched uranium down to natural uranium.

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

In March, the White House released a partial list of Iranian attacks against Americans and promised that "President Donald J. Trump is doing what Presidents over the last five decades have refused to do — eliminate the threat once and for all"

Now we wait to see what kind of a deal Trump signed with Iran. Expect it to fall short of expectations on nuclear, missile, terrorism, & human rights grounds

https://t.co/MDRo0Ph0y1

[Hagar Hajjar Chemali @HagarChemali]

Thank you so much, @GSDeutch! So honored to have been profiled by you & @jewishinsider! ❤️❤️

Read here: https://t.co/50BIo92apW

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

A Lebanese Zionist’s longshot bid to reshape the Middle East - great profile of my friend @HagarChemali https://t.co/hNCx0YwptL

[Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg]

The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook
https://t.co/a727bfmfdh

[Zakiah Shirafkan @zak2sh]

@rich_goldberg @CliffordDMay For those who want to learn more about Project Cassandra
https://t.co/ELsxwdNdb9
This must not happen again.

[Richard Goldberg @rich_goldberg]

People forget how the JCPOA came with a Hezbollah side deal: Dismantlement of efforts to counter Hezbollah. It was a disaster. Project Cassandra anyone? Don’t repeat Obama’s mistakes.

[Hagar Hajjar Chemali @HagarChemali]

This is the Hezbollah leader killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon today - a guy who had kidnapped & killed 5 American soldiers. He was a Specially Designated Global Terrorist and wanted by the United States.

This is also the strike that Trump said never should have happened. As far as I'm concerned, the only response should have been, "Thank you."

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Wow

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Monica with the bars!!!🗣️🗣️

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Obama in 2015 on his own deal: “What is a more relevant fear would be that in year 13, 14, 15, they have advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium fairly rapidly, and at that point the breakout times would have shrunk almost down to zero.” https://t.co/CNT07yM86T

Iran 2026: no enrichment and lost 25,000 centrifuges including advanced models.