Gen. Keane: I’ve never seen anything like this

Gen. Keane: I’ve never seen anything like this

GO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AND THAT IS,A MAZING. >> Brian: TALK ABOUT THE OPERATION THROUGH ANALYSIS OF FOUR-STAR GENERAL JACK KEANE. GENERAL, WHAT WAS YOUR TAKE ON THAT 45 MINUTES AND RUNDOWN, I IMAGINE A LOT OF YOU KNEW ALREADY. >> Jack Keane: CERTAINLY, ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE DOD BRIEFINGS I’VE EVER OBSERVED TO BE FRANK ABOUT IT. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE VERY FRUSTRATED AND PASSIONATE ABOUT MISREPRESENTATION OF RESULTS OF THAT OPERATION AND CERTAINLY FELT COMPELLED TO ADJUDICATE THAT AND PUT THE FACTS IN FRONT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. I HAVE NOT SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT SINCE DON RUMSFELD WAS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE AND WOULD TAKE ISSUE WITH MEDIA. WE WERE AT WAR THEN AND ISSUES WERE HIGH AND STAKES WERE HIGH AND ANY MISREPRESENTATION WOULD CAUSE HUGE FRUSTRATION LIKE IT DID HERE. BUT THE CHAIRMAN’S BRIEFINGS, NEVER SEEN QUITE LIKE THAT. I’VE GIVEN BRIEFINGS MYSELF AND WATCHED SUCCEEDING CHAIRMEN DO BRIEFINGS THROUGH THE YEARS. HE DID SOMETHING QUITE UNUSUAL AND I COMMEND HIM FOR IT. HE BROUGHT THIS OPERATION ALIVE IN TERMS OF THE PEOPLE. HE GAVE IT LIFE. THAT PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE HE WENT OUT AND GATHERED AND BROUGHT THAT HOME TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WAS SOMETHING I THINK WE’LL ALL REMEMBER AND THEN A COUPLE OF FACTS IN HERE ARE ASTOUNDING. IT REMINDED ME OF CIA OPERATIVES ON THE TARGET FOR A DECADE TO GET OSAMA BIN LADEN AND IDENTIFIES A TOP SECRET ORGANIZATION THAT DOES THIS WORKDAY IN AND DAY THE OUT IN THE SHADOWS AWAY FROM ANYBODY’S SPOTLIGHT EVEN IN THE PENTAGON MUCH LESS AMERICAN PEOPLE. WE HAD A FEW PEOPLE ASEMED, WHO HAS BEEN ON THIS TARGET FOR 15 YEARS AND RESULT OF THEIR CONCLUSIONS WE HAD DEVELOPED A SPECIAL BOMB TO DEAL WITH THIS TARGET. THAT IS REMARKABLE. WE HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING QUITE LIKE THAT AS WE KNOW SINCE THE ATOMIC BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON JAPAN IN WORLD WAR II. THAT IS REMARKABLE WHAT TOOK PLACE HERE AND WE WENT OUT AND TESTED THAT TECHNOLOGY AND DIDN’T PUT IT IN THE HANDS OF OUR COMBAT FIGHTERS AND BOMBERS UNTIL WE HAD PROVEN IT. I THINK THEN DETAILS PROVIDED IN TERMS OF WHAT TOOK PLACE AT THE SITE, HOW CAN YOU NOT WATCH THAT AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CHAIRMAN WAS SAYING AND NOT COME TO THE CONCLUSION EVERYONE IS COMING TO THAT THIS PROGRAM IS SETBACK MANY YEARS AND IT WILL TAKE A LONG TIME FOR THEM TO RECOVER AND REBUILD IT. HATS OFF TO WHAT WE JUST WITNESSED HERE IN TERMS OF THIS OPERATION AND DETAILS SUPPORTING IT. >> Brian: SINCE 2009, THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT. HERE IS VIDEO OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE WHEN THEY WERE OPERATING IT BEFORE THEY HIT THE TARGET OVER THE WEEKEND. >> Lawrence: WOW. YOU SEE THE EXPLOSION RIGHT THERE. >> Ainsley: GENERAL, I THINK THIS WAS A TEST MISSION, RIGHT? THIS WASN’T THE ACTUAL, YOU WILL SEE IT HERE. GENERAL, CAN YOU DESCRIBE BASED ON THAT PRESS CONFERENCE, WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED? SOUNDS LIKE THE FIRST BUNKER BUSTER TOOK OFF CEMENT USED TO COVER THE THREE VENTS, SECOND ONE, THIRD, FOURTH AND 5TH WENT DOWN THE MIDDLE SHAFT, IS THAT WHAT YOU GATHERED? >> Jack Keane: THAT IS WHAT I GATHERED FROM IT. AND A BACKUP, NUMBER SIX, THERE IN CASE THERE WAS ANY FAILURE. THEY BUILT SUCCESS INTO THIS OPERATION. WHENEVER MILITARY IS PLANNING A OPERATION, ONE THING THAT WE DO VERY WELL IS WE GO THROUGH WHAT IF, WHAT IF, WHAT IF AND TRY TO OF COER THE BASES ON ALL THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN AND RESULT IN MISSION FAILURE AND THAT IS CERTAINLY BUILT INTO THIS OPERATION WITH 12 MOPS ON ONE SITE AND TWO ON THE OTHER SITE. WE ALSO HAVE TO CREDIT THE ISRAELIS IN TERMS OF COMPREHENSIVE AIR CAMPAIGN THEY WERE RUNNING THROUGH 10, 11 DAYS PRIOR TO THIS MISSION BEING RUN THAT HIT ALL 12 NUCLEAR SITES, THEY TOOK DOWN REMAINING 70 AIR DEFENSE BATTERIES IN THE FIRST 24 HOURS, ASTOUNDING, PLAY BOOK WE DON’T BRING INTO THE COUNTRY UNTIL WE HAVE DONE THAT JOB AS LONG AS IT TAKES. THEY DID A REMARKABLE JOB DOING THAT. AND THE ISRAELIS AND THE UNITED STATES HAVE SET THIS PROGRAM BACK AND I THINK WE GOT TO REMIND OURSELVES, THIS REGIME AND WHO THEY ARE HAS NOT CHANGED. >> Lawrence: THAT’S RIGHT. >> Jack Keane: THEY ARE COMMITTED TO HAVING A NUCLEAR PROGRAM, DESPITE SUCCESS WE’VE HAD HERE, I EXPECT THEM TO BE THINKING ABOUT HOW ARE THEY GOING TO RECOVER AND HOW ARE THEY GOING TO REBUILD AND WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN OUR VIGILANCE HERE, OUR INTEL, ISRAELIS, OURSELVES AND IF THEY START TO RECOVER IT, THE ISRAELIS, SUPPORTED BY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD REATTACK AND TAKE IT DOWN. WE DON’T LET THEM GET TO POINT THEY HAVE SIGNIFICANT CAPABILITY AND ARE JUST WEEKS AWAY FROM A WEAPON. NO MORE CANNOT LET THAT HAPPEN. >> Lawrence: I DON’T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE, YOU HAVE BEEN IN THIS POSITION BEFORE, THE CHAIRMAN WAS A LITTLE EVASIVE AT ONE POINT, I DON’T WANT TO GIVE UP TOO MUCH, WE MAY STILL NEED THESE GUYS AGAIN. HE CUT OFF SOME QUESTIONS THERE. >> Jack Keane: NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THISSING. ONE,OR ADVERSARIES ARE WATCHING THIS AND I THINK THIS OPERATION, PRESIDENT’S DECISION, BOLDNESS OF IT AND COMMITMENT AND DETERMINATION WAS REFLECTED IN THAT DECISION. HE HAD TIME AND TIME AGAIN NEVER EQUIVOCATED NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PERIOD. NO PRESIDENT SAID IT AS MUCH AND NO PRESIDENT SAID IT WITH AS MUCH DETERMINATION AND HE DELIVERS. I THINK PART OF THE BRIEFING ALSO IS ARE IF OUR ADVERSARIES TO SEE IT AND GIVE SOME SENSE OF CAPABILITIES. WE HAVE ACHIEVED A LEVEL OF DETERRENCE AS RESULT OF THIS WITH RUSSIA, CHINA AND NORTH KOREA AND LOOK, RUSSIA AND CHINA COULD HAVE HELPED IRAN IN THEIR MOST DESPERATE MOMENT HERE. ONCE ISRAELIS ATTACK, NOTHING CAME TO ASSIST THEM, NOT EVEN PROXIES CAME TO ASSIST THEM AND THEY FUNDED HEZBOLLAH FOR REASON TO DEFEND IRAN AGAINST ISRAEL. THEY ARE ISOLATED IN WAY THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN AND WE HAVE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY HERE TO CREATE CHANGE. I HOPE WHEN WE GO INTO THE NEGOTIATIONS WE PUT ON THE TABLE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY TOUGH. INDEPENDENT INSPECTORS IN THE COUNTRY LOOKING AT ALL SITES AND WHAT IS NOT DESTROYED OR DISMANTLED, THEN DISMANTLE IT AND TALK ABOUT CHANGE OF BEHAVIOR. NOT GIVING YOU FREE TRADE AND SANCTION RELIEF UNTIL YOU COMMIT YOU WILL NOT SUPPORT YOUR PROXIES ANYMORE, YOU WILL NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM ANYMORE, YOU WILL RECOGNIZE STATE OF ISRAEL. IF YOU COMMIT, WE WILL RELIEVE SANCTIONS AND OPEN UP TRADE WITH YOU SO YOU CAN BECOME A LEGITIMATE COUNTRY IN THIS REGION. IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO COMMIT, WE’LL CONTINUE ON THIS PATH AND CONTINUE TO BE ISOLATED AND YOUR ECONOMY WILL CONTINUE TO BE IN THE TANK AND WE’LL CONTINUE TO CONTAIN YOUR AMBITIONS AGAINST WHAT THE REGION NEEDS, WHICH IS PEACE AND STABILITY. WE HAVE HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR P

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