Why Trump bombed Iran


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When President Trump decided to bomb Iran, it seemed a rebuke to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence. On March 25, Ms. Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader [Ali] Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003." That was the consensus of the intelligence community when I worked for the DNI more than a decade ago. When CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reminded Mr. Trump of that testimony last week aboard Air Force One, he said: “I don’t care...