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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'Pure Shamelessness': Critics Rip Karoline Leavitt's 'Dangerous' New Lie For Trump
Critics are urging White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt to brush up on history after she went a little too far with her over-the-top praise of President Donald Trump's bombing campaign in Iran. 'No other president in history could have ever dreamed of such a success,' she said of the operation during a Fox News interview. Her critics on social media noted that U.S. presidents have seen success in the Civil War, World War I and World War II, to name a few. Trump has claimed that Iran's nuclear capabilities were 'completely and totally obliterated' in the weekend attack carried out by U.S. B-2 bombers. However, a U.S. intelligence assessment leaked to several media outlets reportedly takes a more measured tone, saying the attack may have only set Iran's nuclear program back by as little as a few months. Trump on Wednesday called the media outlets that reported the story 'scum.' Leavitt took a similar approach, calling the media 'fake news' and accusing the press of 'trying to demean and undermine the president.' Leavitt blamed 'hostile actors within the intelligence community' for leaking 'bits and pieces' of a report to 'push a fake news narrative' to make Trump look bad. 'President Trump completely and totally obliterated the capability of Iran to produce a nuclear weapon, and the world is safer today because of his historic efforts,' she insisted. But it's her claim that 'no other president in history could have ever dreamed of such a success' that got her critics fired up. Some offered reminders of just what that history has included, while others compared Leavitt to North Korea's state-run media. They wrote on X: It's fascinating the way Leavitt has turned herself into a mini-Trump, talking about him in the most grandiose terms imaginable, while denigrating every president who came before him. "No other president in history could have dreamed of such success" - pure shamelessness. — James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) June 25, 2025 Really? D-Day was small fries. — Tracey Gallagher (@asmartbrunette1) June 26, 2025 This is truly both a DANGEROUS and INSANE lie. Because they did not obliterate anything & it allows the Iranians to quickly regroup and continue exactly what they were doing before, all because their orange faced cult leader tells fantastical lies they need to back up endlessly. — Spiro's Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) June 25, 2025 A big reason Karoline Leavitt knows she can get away with towering buffooneries like claiming this is the greatest thing any American president has ever done is that she can count on getting accepted into polite DC society and given a lucrative Fox gig after all this is over — Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 25, 2025 Have you ever read a history book? — Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 (@KellyScaletta) June 25, 2025 — 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) June 25, 2025 Has she ever heard of World War II? The Civil War? The Revolutionary War? This ass-kissing is beyond belief. — Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein) 👁📖Poet, Singer, Psychic (@lisabsingerpoet) June 25, 2025 FDR did D Day. — Bruce Crossing (@MiMagaWatch) June 25, 2025 Let me get this other President "in history" could have ordered bombers to drop bombs in their inventory on an Iranian target?What the actual heck are you even talking about? — Joshua B. Hoe (@JoshuaBHoe) June 26, 2025 I had no idea North Korea had a Comms school. She must have attended the online program. — 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝐺𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑛 🇮🇱 (@DG_NYC) June 26, 2025
Forbes
23-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
The Hybrid Space Imperative: Weather As The First Mission
A naval vessel cuts through towering waves during high-storm conditions. America's strategic edge in space depends on more than launch capacity or satellite numbers—it relies on speed, agility, and the seamless integration of public and commercial capabilities into a unified, resilient ecosystem. That is the promise of the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA): a federated space enterprise where government and private-sector assets interoperate to deliver actionable intelligence at machine speed. Yet while the vision is broadly embraced, execution remains sluggish. Too many agencies are still anchored in a 20th-century mindset, with processes designed to reinforce outdated paradigms and procurement cycles that drag on for years. At the same time, operational units often lack access to the most advanced commercial data already available on orbit. The challenge is no longer one of feasibility, it's one of commitment and follow-through. Consider weather intelligence as a proving ground for hybrid space capability. Achieving a true hybrid architecture in this domain—where data refresh rates, global coverage, and precision are paramount—means that we can deliver it anywhere. Few mission areas better demonstrate both the promise and urgency of HSA implementation than weather intelligence. America is entering another summer of converging hazards: softball-sized hail threatening the Texas energy corridor, U.S. destroyers navigating strike operations in the Red Sea, and hurricane seasons that experts warn could rival the record-breaking intensity of 2020. Along the coast, NOAA anticipates 17–21 named storms this season. Even a 10 percent improvement in forecast accuracy can translate into billions in savings and critical hours gained for evacuation efforts. And across the homeland, infrastructure built for the 20th century is buckling under the pressures of 21st-century climate extremes. Centimeter-scale weather awareness is no longer a luxury, it's a necessity for keeping runways open, power grids stable, and supply chains moving. Whether the call is to shut down a refinery, launch a combat sortie, or evacuate a coastal city, one overlooked variable can change everything: precise, real-time weather data. On the front line, U.S. and partner forces have executed over 800 defensive strikes in Yemen in just the past six weeks. Real-time weather inputs—cloud ceilings, dust plumes, wind shear—could sharpen targeting windows and reduce risk, but today often sit unused due to bureaucratic lags. And that data is already available. Over the past decade, commercial innovators have deployed a new generation of venture-backed smallsats equipped with lightning mappers, Ka-band precipitation radars, and hyperspectral imagers—all delivering performance at a fraction of the cost and mass of legacy systems. These sensors now refresh global temperature, humidity, and precipitation data in minutes. In short: the architecture for weather dominance is already in orbit. Boston-based is one of many such commercial space data companies. They've already launched five microwave-sounder satellites in the past five months and now deliver global temperature and humidity profiles hourly. That's about 10x faster than legacy systems, for those keeping score. In terms of revisit-rate, CEO and Co-founder Shimon Elkabetz tells us, 'We are already exceeding the combined capacity of all national assets on orbit, and we're on track to hit 300 percent improvement, from about three hours to one hour.' What's still missing is the connective tissue, the operational and acquisition infrastructure needed to integrate these sensors into mission workflows across DoD, DHS, NOAA, and beyond. This level of integration is exactly what a functioning Hybrid Space Architecture would make routine. There are three key steps that would move HSA from blueprint to battlefield and could be adapted by the Space Force, NRO, and NASA. First, establish low-cost, open-architecture operational testbeds to foster a 'fly-before-you-buy' culture. These digital environments could be stood up within 60–90 days and aligned with ongoing government missions—whether tracking hurricanes, directing strike packages, or coordinating disaster relief. Such testbeds would enable real-world performance evaluation while informing smarter long-term procurement strategies. The outcome: drastically reduced acquisition risk and faster learning cycles. Second, develop common interfaces and interoperability standards, following the lead of the Space Development Agency's laser communication protocols. Over time, a government-wide exchange, modeled after the Defense Innovation Unit's commercial services framework, could allow all federal agencies to access calibrated, validated datasets, without the burden of crafting bespoke contracts. Weather data makes an ideal starting point: it's unclassified, globally relevant, and mission-critical across agencies. Finally, stand up mission-centric integration teams where private-sector data scientists are embedded alongside government meteorologists and planners. Agile teams that iterate weekly, not annually, will accelerate the transformation of raw data into mission-ready intelligence. Because the true value of the HSA lies not just in the data, but in turning that data into decisive action. What's missing isn't the data or the technology. Winning this second space race requires an acquisition system built not just for oversight, but for speed, scale, and operational relevance. If we can't federate space assets to address this challenge—where the stakes are urgent and the data is already overhead—what confidence can we have in our ability to respond during crisis or conflict? The HSA must now move beyond slide decks and talking points. It must enable real-time, multi-sensor tasking and deliver direct support to operations, not someday, but now. That shift won't come from theory, either. It comes from action, field-level integration, and a system willing to prioritize outcomes over process. We have the tools. The question is whether we have the will before the next storm forces our hand.
Al Arabiya
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Gabbard says AI is speeding up intel work, including the release of the JFK assassination
Artificial intelligence is speeding up the work of America's intelligence services, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday. Speaking to a technology conference, Gabbard said AI programs, when used responsibly, can save money and free up intelligence officers to focus on gathering and analyzing information. The sometimes slow pace of intelligence work frustrated her as a member of Congress, Gabbard said, and continues to be a challenge. AI can run human resource programs, for instance, or scan sensitive documents ahead of potential declassification, Gabbard said. Her office has released tens of thousands of pages of material related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, on the orders of President Donald Trump. Experts had predicted the process could take many months or even years, but AI accelerated the work by scanning the documents to see if they contained any material that should remain classified, Gabbard said during her remarks at the Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington. 'We have been able to do that through the use of AI tools far more quickly than what was done previously — which was to have humans go through and look at every single one of these pages,' Gabbard said. The intelligence community already relies on many private-sector technologies, and Gabbard said she wants to expand that relationship instead of using federal resources to create expensive alternatives. 'How do we look at the available tools that exist — largely in the private sector — to make it so that our intelligence professionals, both collectors and analysts, are able to focus their time and energy on the things that only they can do," she said. Gabbard, who coordinates the work of 18 intelligence agencies, has vowed to shake up America's spy services. Since assuming her role this year, she has created a new task force to consider changes to agency operations as well as greater declassification. She also has fired two veteran intelligence officers because of perceived opposition to Trump, eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs and relocated the staff who prepare the President's Daily Brief to give her more direct control.
