WATCH: Imminent Threat – or Ruse?

Is the intel on the war on Iran a flashback to the 2003 invasion of Iraq?  Ray McGovern, Anthony Aguilar, Dennis Fritz and more live from the National Press Club in Washington. Thurs, 9 am- 2pm EDT.

U.S. Veterans, from Vietnam to Iraq, know how wars have been based on “contradicted or even non-existent” intelligence (Senate bipartisan report on Iraq, 2008).

Now a top official quits, says the president was “deceived into believing Iran posed an imminent threat.” Presenting the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment to Congress, the National Intelligence Director parried questions about “immediate threat.”

Speakers:

• LTC Anthony Aguilar, USA (Ret.)

• CCM, CMSgt Dennis Fritz, U.S. Air Force (Ret.)

Josie Guilbeau, Frmr U.S. Army All-Source Intel Analyst

• Lt. Col, Ivan Ingraham, former MARSOC Special Operations Officer

• GySgt Bryce Lockwood, Chief, USMC Det., USS Liberty survivor

• Brian McGinnis, former SGT, USMC 

Ray McGovern, Frmr C.I.A. Presidential Daily Briefer

•Michael Vlahos, author, Fighting Identity: Sacred War & World Change

 

16 comments for “WATCH: Imminent Threat – or Ruse?

  1. March 29, 2026 at 15:15

    Thank you to all organizers, participants and attendees who engaged in this immensely important, necessary in-depth discussion. For those Americans who still appreciate communications which require lengthy explanations, critical thinking, and/or covering all the vital points, – this is the sought after outstanding presentation for you.

    Peace.

  2. Otto
    March 27, 2026 at 06:33

    Melania: You know you are so stupid you don’t know the whole world is laughing at how stupid you are.
    Trump: That’s not true. Hegseth keeps telling me, and he is so bright, maybe the brightest ever, except for me of course, how everyone admires my brilliance and sagacity, is that because my ideas don’t sag?
    Melania: You know what I’m getting you for your birthday?
    Trump: Of course I know, what is it?
    Melania: It’s the newest Sesame Street costume to wear ‘Be Whatever You Want’.
    Trump: I’ve already got a lot of those.
    Melania: Yes, but they are wearing thin, you need a new one to keep brightening up everyone with laughter. No, come to think of it you probably don’t need more of them.
    Trump: Anyway that’s not that new as it’s always what I do plus bringing peace and order around the world, don’t forget.
    Melania: Marge Simpson always has the proper response I should use.
    Trump: Oh yeah, the Simpsons…didn’t Homer say, any tries for success is the first step to failure? Call up Hegseth and see if he knows that.

  3. Lorna Paisley
    March 27, 2026 at 02:19

    I think we need to be very careful thinking Joe Kent is something new and good. Listen to his interview with Tucker Carlson.
    Kent thought it was great that Trump had General Soleimani murdered. Wasn’t he helping fight ISIS? And Kent admired the way strong actions were taken with sanctions. Aren’t sanctions and killing Generals acts of war. None of this is admirable in my eyes.

    • Otto
      March 27, 2026 at 06:28

      My very thoughts too!

  4. Eric Arthur Blair
    March 26, 2026 at 23:06

    Multiple choice question:
    How stupid is the Trump regime?
    A. Very stupid
    B. Very very stupid
    C. Very very very stupid
    D. Very, very, very, very stupid

    A. The Trump regime is very stupid to imagine they can intimidate Iran with the bluff of invading Kharg island, which will be a guaranteed slaughter of all US troops. This may be a ploy to manipulate stock market movements. Threaten today, then TACO tomorrow, just as Trump threatened to bomb Iranian power grids, then did a TACO, making short term windfalls for himself and his cronies by insider trading.
    hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st3NaUomLeA (from around 9min 30sec)
    hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkGKNIxgko (from around 6min)

    B. The Trump regime is very very stupid if they think the can flood the media with false reports of an intended invasion of Kharg Island, then pull a surprise on Iran by trying to seize high ground overlooking Hormuz. This may have “worked” in WW2 to fool the Germs into thinking the Allies would invade at Calais but instead invaded at Normandy.
    It will not work here. Carpet bombing the cliffs on the north of Hormuz will not disable the Iranian drone and missile emplacements protected in caves and buried underground. Fevered dreams of dropping paratroopers behind the cliffs to then secure the caves and then enable marines to land on the shore under the cliffs will result in guaranteed slaughter of all US troops. It will be magnitudes worse than Gallipoli.

    C. The Trump regime is very, very, very stupid if they think that they will be able to take Larak or Qeshim island, within artillery range and under the shadow of the Hormuz cliffs.
    hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMamThk86Cw

    D. The Trump regime is very, very, very, very stupid to actually go ahead with attempting to seize Kharg Island. To what end? It is one of five oil filling terminals, the island has no oil in itself. Kharg is 483 km away from Hormuz, deep inside the Persian Gulf. Any paratroopers trying to drop there will be shot down in their planes long before they can even parachute, any marines trying to land there will be blown out of the water long before they even reach Hormuz. Even if they can secure the island, they cannot be resupplied and will die of thirst within 3 days anyway because the YankeeZioNazis themselves destroyed the desalination facility.

    How stupid is the Trump regime? We shall see very soon.

  5. wildthange
    March 26, 2026 at 20:48

    LBJ bombed North Vietnam to get elected after risk to election over desegregation in democratic south due to bad world racial press. That unfortunately led to destroying the demilitarized zone and causing much more trouble to follow like mutiny that Bush Sr thought he revived from Vietnam only to have his son come along to undo it all over again. Then Obama/Biden caught the proxy war bug and now Trump is spurring war on by having a bone to pick with Iran.

  6. Drew Hunkins
    March 26, 2026 at 19:10

    Anyone who thinks Iran is an imminent threat to the American domestic homeland is a complete retard or a deluded brainwashed Baby Boomer.

  7. As the World Turns
    March 26, 2026 at 18:16

    Ongoing threat , the soap opera continues .
    Oh but affairs suggested , certainly may be true ,
    The daze of our lies .
    Tune in tommorow .

  8. wilrodx
    March 26, 2026 at 16:24

    THE BIG FAT CONFABULATOR

    The shit stain in the White house is at it again. Flapping it’s flabby lips to claim that the US is in negotiations with Iran to end the war. Sound familiar? Remember that negotiations with Russia over Ukraine were really his two real estate brokers yakking with the vacuous EU heads of state over how many points make a list. Then there was the Gaza negotiations about a peace that wasn’t.

    There is even news that Pakistan, Türkiye and Egypt would be playing a game of telephone pretending Iran was on the other line.

    telesurenglish.net/paki…

    The truth is, Iran still won’t talk to “Trumpity Dumpty” or his realtors. Is this confabulation, psychosis, delusion or just plain lying? My guess: it’s a mad mix cocktail of all those that is the only thing he’s actually good at. If you can call being a lying sack of corrupt excrement “good”.

  9. MRS R E BARLOW
    March 26, 2026 at 14:33

    Too right Johnny!

  10. March 26, 2026 at 13:36

    As Michael Vlahos mentions, here is the essay….
    hxxps://www.agonmag.com/p/the-demon-in-americas-sacred-narrative

  11. Valerie
    March 26, 2026 at 10:52

    “It’s an uphill battle”

    Ray McGovern

  12. Steve
    March 26, 2026 at 10:33

    ‘the president was “deceived into believing Iran posed an imminent threat.” ‘
    One has to ask, how much self learned knowledge of the world does the president actually have ? Is his mind an empty slate that has to be populated by advisors and ‘experts’ ?
    Every man and his dog had worked out that Iran was not a threat, in fact Trump said as much after his illegal attack on Iran in 2025. If Biden was senile, what is Trump ? Senile, moron, liar, all three !

  13. Johnny
    March 26, 2026 at 05:03

    A president deceived.
    Plenty of precedents for that.
    Dozens in fact.

    • Dfnslblty
      March 26, 2026 at 09:23

      Johnny,
      prior Deceptions do not justify current deceptions

    • Ed von tobel
      March 26, 2026 at 19:29

      Yes..pray for our government

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