This which I just ran across, combined with the above news, begs the question: Is Bolton calling the shots on policy?

The Trump administration just sent a dark, threatening message to Kim Jong Un

By Alex Lockie @ BusinessInsider.com, 4 hrs. ago

• President Donald Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said in an interview with CBS over the weekend that he favored a "Libya model" when dealing with North Korea.
• The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gave up his weapons of mass destruction in the early 2000s but fell from power when the US and others backed an uprising against him and was violently killed in 2011.
• At the time, North Korea argued that Libya's disarmament and the subsequent military involvement by the US showed why Pyongyang should keep its weapons.
• Bolton could have picked other analogies to talk about denuclearizing North Korea, but he seems to have selected Libya on purpose, knowing the implications.

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Though Trump often flip flops with his policy statements now, and often seems allover the place, this certainly fits with his main campaign messages on North Korea, Iran and the whole nuke issue. #MAGA bully uber alles.

Ha'aretz:  Analysis: Israel Braces for Iranian Retaliation for Syria Strike – but War Isn’t Inevitable

by Amos Harel, April 30, 9:13 pm their time

There could be a lull before Lebanon's May 6 election and the Americans' May 12 decision on the Iranian nuclear deal, but revenge could come from Lebanon, Syria, Iran or further afield

Sarah sez it was just a typo, gone way past Spicey now:

By Louis Nelson @ Politico.com, 05/01/2018 03:33 PM EDT

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday blamed a "typo" for a controversial statement issued late Monday that initially said Iran currently "has" a secret nuclear program — a conclusion that would have major implications for the Iran nuclear deal.

In the statement issued under Sanders' name, the Trump administration originally wrote that “Iran has a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people,” [....]

The statement was later amended online to switch to the past tense, that “Iran had a robust, clandestine nuclear weapons program.” On the White House website, the statement is published without a correction or other acknowledgment of the error, and a corrected email was not sent to reporters.

“We think the biggest mistake that was made was under the Obama administration by ever entering the deal that you referenced in the first place,” Sanders told reporters on Tuesday. “The typo that you referenced was noticed, immediately corrected and we are focused on moving forward on the safety and security of our country.” [....]