The Brief | Israel Just Killed Iran's Number Two and Three. And Is Washington Cracked?

Inside Tehran's collapsing command structure, a gold-star counterterrorism chief who married into The Grayzone, a congressional subpoena for Pam Bondi, and the Senate's SAVE Act theater

Mar 18, 2026

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It’s Wednesday!

I’m here with your mid-week edition. If you’re reading this before coffee, put it down. You need both hands for this one. Operation Epic Fury is now in week three, Iran’s shadow government just got eliminated, and is the America First coalition cracking in real time?

ICYMI, we talked about it on the podcast!

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Ep. 217 | Tucker's CIA Claim, Joe Kent Quits & Why the Media Is Rooting Against America

Tucker Carlson says the CIA is building a criminal case against him. Joe Kent just resigned from the DNI’s counterterrorism office with a letter that contradicts itself. And legacy media — the same outlets that cheerleaded the Iraq war without a single tough question — are now going wall-to-wall negative on Iran. Coincidence…

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