The 2013 " Munich " unravels - Iran

Guardian: Reports the following from Iran, " Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi says uranium enrichment is progressing ".

Lets Get Real:

The US Senate when it returns in to session could see this move a break of faith in the recent Geneva agreement, a combination of Democrats and Republicans could add further sanctions to present US sanctions, one can assume the Israeli Lobby will place pressure on those Senators up for re-election to support more sanctions, with the Oval's poll numbers in the toilet the Oval does not have the support on the Hill to prevent sanctions, the US Majority Leader Senator Reid will find it hard to stall such sanctions.   Tehran has made it clear that any new sanctions and the nuclear deal is OFF, well Tehran has broken the agreement, they are never going to give up the ability to become a nuclear armed power no matter what the rhetoric is, the Oval needs to learn that rhetoric is not reality, the Tehran Regime wants to be the major power in the region, thus only Israel and Iran would have the bomb, this would lead to a nuclear arms race in the region.   The oil rich States in the Middle East will seek to get the bomb as fast as possible, thus do not be surprise to see Israel take some action, it can not wait forever and it does not trust the US or Iran. 

Federal Judge Approves Bugging US Citizens

CNN - Politics: Reports the following from a Federal Court in New York, " A federal judge in New York ruled the NSA's bulk collection of data on nearly every phone call made in the United States was legal. ".

Lets Get Real:

Some sense out of the Courts at last, a New York Judge should understand the need for the NSA to bug everyone in the US and around the World, no wants another 9/11, this shows that there are some Judges who live in the real world, not the academic world.  The intelligence agencies need to keep a constant eye on the terrorist threat, thus the need to check the dots, the use of drones and then in special cases the use of US Special Forces to do the job.    When it comes to the War on Terror, on the whole this blog does not fault President Obama, his rhetoric sometimes gets ahead of reality, but you can fault most Presidents of that at sometime during their terms.