Mauro compares Iran rescue of missing colonel to Maduro capture, credits intelligence preparation

U.S. intelligence agencies had already done nan groundwork needed to find a missing colonel inside Iran, Paul Mauro said Monday, arguing nan cognition relied connected intelligence gathered good earlier nan ngo began.

"You've sewage to collect, you collect, you cod and a batch of it sometimes you're ne'er going to use," Mauro told "Fox & Friends."

"The cardinal is erstwhile you request it, it has to beryllium there."

Mauro pointed to nan Maduro case, which unfolded astatine nan behest of nan Trump management successful January, noting U.S. forces' expertise to pinpoint wherever nan Venezuelan dictator and his woman were going to beryllium astatine nan clip successful bid to make an effective capture.

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"They sewage him arsenic they were moving to a safe room without a scratch. Everybody comes retired without a scratch," he said.

"They sewage them arsenic they were fleeing. That's really elaborate nan messaging was, and that's really synchronized nan cognition was."

Mauro said that aforesaid level of mentation and coordination was connected show successful nan Iran mission, wherever U.S. forces rescued a missing U.S. weapons systems officer from a downed F-15E pursuing a multi-day hunt wrong force territory.

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U.S. intelligence was capable to enactment quickly to retrieve nan missing colonel erstwhile his location was confirmed.

"[This] was 1 of those situations wherever nan doorbell rang. 'Guys, what [have] you got?' President turns around, [War Secretary] Hegseth turns around, [and] they each talk to Ratcliffe and they say, 'What [have] you got, director?' and fortunately it was there."

Mauro said nan cognition highlights a broader truth astir intelligence activity that is evident to those moving wrong its community: its occurrence comes down to nan group moving nan sources.

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"At nan extremity of nan day… it comes down to people," he said.

"If you deliberation that you tin beryllium successful a cubicle someplace and get everything you request to beryllium done, that's not really it's going to go. You request group successful country, successful vulnerable areas, Americans moving connected our behalf that you'll ne'er perceive about... they're moving nan sources truthful that, again, erstwhile you request it, they say, 'My root is good.'"