Out on Twitter, New York Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi ignited a controversy by announcing that she'd heard from her Deep State sources within the Trump administration that the pretext for the U.S. strike on Iranian terrorist chieftain Qassem Soleimani was pretty flimsy: 1. I’ve had a chance to check in with sources, including two US officials who had intelligence briefings after the strike on Suleimani. Here is what I’ve learned. According to them, the evidence suggesting there was to be an imminent attack on American targets is “razor thin”. — Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) January 4, 2020 Seems she couldn't wait to get that "scoop" into the paying subscription part of the Times, so out it flew on freebird Twitter.  Maybe it didn't even measure up to the Times' fact-checking standards.  The foreign desk is quite possibly tougher than the political desk. Or maybe...(Read Full Post)