Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's damning slip-up during his Congressional testimony last week revealed just how little President Donald Trump's war in Iran has accomplished, according to a former federal prosecutor.
Glenn Kirschner, a former Department of Justice prosecutor, argued during a new episode of his "Justice Matters" podcast that Hegseth accidentally admitted something important during an exchange with Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA). Hegseth seemed confused as to whether Iran's nuclear facilities had been "completely obliterated" during a strike on them last year, as he claimed during the hearing, or whether the country still had nuclear capabilities that warranted another strike.
Kirschner said that the exchange showed just how little the war in Iran has accomplished, other than killing military troops and raising prices for consumers at home.
"If you have aspirations and ambitions to someday in the future try to develop a nuclear weapon, the threat is not imminent," Kirschner said. "So what [Hegseth] did was lie to the American people about the need to go to war against Iran because there was no imminent threat, by [his] own admission."
"Really, the only thing [Hegseth] accomplished was getting our service members injured and killed, getting innocent Iranians — including an entire school full of young girls— killed, creating global economic havoc on the energy front, and making it so that Americans can't afford to fill their gas tanks," he said. "That's all you've accomplished."