Thanks for the post. McGee is saying how I understood the initial reports to be, and that made sense. I also think they were intercepted in international waters rather than “lost/mechanical problems” by the Revolutionary Guard who wanted an incident on the day that bh0 was to give the state of the union address.
I’m also in agreement with this from Lifson’s article, or whomever he copied it from: “”statement of “confession,” probably because that was exactly the statement he was supposed to make according to one of those SOPs at Fifth Fleet that had been set up for the alternative scenarios.””
Why, because that is the type of orders that would be ordered to be given under this administrations ‘give the Iranians everything they want, so the don’t back out of the nuke deal’ policy.
That’s right, timed perfectly for maximum Iranian leverage against Obama/Kerry, who would throw babies into a furnace to keep the nuke deal on track.