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404 Media: Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed<\/a><\/h2>\nFlock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company with a presence in thousands of communities across the U.S., has stopped agencies across the country from searching cameras inside Illinois, California, and Virginia, 404 Media has learned. The dramatic moves come after 404 Media revealed local police departments were repeatedly performing lookups around the country on behalf of ICE<\/a>, a Texas officer searched cameras nationwide for a woman who self-administered an abortion<\/a>, and lawmakers recently signed a new law in Virginia. Ordinarily Flock allows agencies to opt into a national lookup database, where agencies in one state can access data collected in another, as long as they also share their own data. This practice violates multiple state laws which bar the sharing of ALPR data out of state or it being accessed for immigration or healthcare purposes.
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Mark Hertling: First Reports Are Always Wrong. The Iran Strike Is No Exception.<\/a><\/h2>\nBefore we\u2014or our political leaders\u2014jump to conclusions, we should let the professionals work.
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\nBut even without trusting the news reports about the DIA assessment implicitly, I still take the DIA report seriously. …
\n…<\/p>\nAccording to reporting, DIA assessed that several key facilities were either missed entirely or only partially damaged, including hardened centrifuge halls and subterranean power nodes essential to Iran\u2019s ability to continue uranium enrichment. Some of these targets had long been assessed as deeply fortified beneath up to 90 feet of granite reinforced by concrete, likely requiring multiple rounds of strikes even with the \u201cMassive Ordnance Penetrator,\u201d or MOP, a weapon designed specifically for this purpose.<\/p>\n
The professionals at DIA know that strategic effects aren\u2019t always determined by the size of the explosions\u2014the effects of any strike are confirmed by analysis. It appears we delivered a message, but we may not have delivered a knockout punch. …
\n(Mark Hertling more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBBC: Damaged or destroyed – how much does leaked US report on Iran’s nuclear sites tell us?<\/a><\/h2>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 25, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nLaura Rozen of Diplomatic<\/em> notes that the strikes might have convinced Iran to abandon negotiations and commit to building a nuclear weapon. Rozen quotes former top European Union Iran nuclear negotiator Enrique Mora, who wrote: \u201cThis unprecedented strike has shown, for the second time, the Islamic regime that nuclear diplomacy is reversible, fragile and vulnerable to changes in leadership in Washington. There will not be a third time.\u201d Mora continued: \u201cIf Iran now decides to move towards a bomb, it will do so following a clear strategic logic. No one bombs the capital of a nuclear-armed country. June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.\u201d<\/p>\nTonight, on his social media site, Trump\u2019s account called for Israel to abandon its trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, calling it a \u201cridiculous Witch Hunt.\u201d Trump claimed that Netanyahu was a partner in \u201csomething that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the world, and it was going to happen, SOON!\u201d Trump called for the trial to be \u201cCANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero.\u201d He continued: \u201cIt was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBoing Boing: Pete Hegseth attacks former Fox colleague when she asks him a straightforward question<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nGriffin, a decades-long national security correspondent for Fox News, was part of a press briefing this morning when she asked the Fox-turned-Trump flunky, “Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow mountain?\u2026”<\/p>\n
To which the novice Secretary, unable to come up with an answer, instead lashed out at the seasoned reporter. “Of course we’re watching every single aspect,” Hegseth growled before attacking her. “But Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally!”
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Mark Hertling: First Reports Are Always Wrong. The Iran Strike Is No Exception.<\/a><\/h2>\n
Before we\u2014or our political leaders\u2014jump to conclusions, we should let the professionals work.
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\nBut even without trusting the news reports about the DIA assessment implicitly, I still take the DIA report seriously. …
\n…<\/p>\nAccording to reporting, DIA assessed that several key facilities were either missed entirely or only partially damaged, including hardened centrifuge halls and subterranean power nodes essential to Iran\u2019s ability to continue uranium enrichment. Some of these targets had long been assessed as deeply fortified beneath up to 90 feet of granite reinforced by concrete, likely requiring multiple rounds of strikes even with the \u201cMassive Ordnance Penetrator,\u201d or MOP, a weapon designed specifically for this purpose.<\/p>\n
The professionals at DIA know that strategic effects aren\u2019t always determined by the size of the explosions\u2014the effects of any strike are confirmed by analysis. It appears we delivered a message, but we may not have delivered a knockout punch. …
\n(Mark Hertling more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBBC: Damaged or destroyed – how much does leaked US report on Iran’s nuclear sites tell us?<\/a><\/h2>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 25, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nLaura Rozen of Diplomatic<\/em> notes that the strikes might have convinced Iran to abandon negotiations and commit to building a nuclear weapon. Rozen quotes former top European Union Iran nuclear negotiator Enrique Mora, who wrote: \u201cThis unprecedented strike has shown, for the second time, the Islamic regime that nuclear diplomacy is reversible, fragile and vulnerable to changes in leadership in Washington. There will not be a third time.\u201d Mora continued: \u201cIf Iran now decides to move towards a bomb, it will do so following a clear strategic logic. No one bombs the capital of a nuclear-armed country. June 21, 2025 may go down in history not as the day the Iranian nuclear program was destroyed, but as the day a nuclear Iran was irreversibly born.\u201d<\/p>\nTonight, on his social media site, Trump\u2019s account called for Israel to abandon its trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, calling it a \u201cridiculous Witch Hunt.\u201d Trump claimed that Netanyahu was a partner in \u201csomething that nobody thought was possible, a complete elimination of potentially one of the biggest and most powerful Nuclear Weapons anywhere in the world, and it was going to happen, SOON!\u201d Trump called for the trial to be \u201cCANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero.\u201d He continued: \u201cIt was the United States of America that saved Israel, and now it is going to be the United States of America that saves Bibi Netanyahu.\u201d
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nBoing Boing: Pete Hegseth attacks former Fox colleague when she asks him a straightforward question<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nGriffin, a decades-long national security correspondent for Fox News, was part of a press briefing this morning when she asked the Fox-turned-Trump flunky, “Do you have certainty that all the highly enriched uranium was inside the Fordow mountain?\u2026”<\/p>\nTo which the novice Secretary, unable to come up with an answer, instead lashed out at the seasoned reporter. “Of course we’re watching every single aspect,” Hegseth growled before attacking her. “But Jennifer, you’ve been about the worst. The one who misrepresents the most intentionally!”
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