Quote Originally Posted by carl View Post
only the party to be diverted is the Iranian people
The Administration has known of this since June. The 'plot' had not progressed far enough to be danger OR to rope in more evidence which almost certainly would have been garnered in another few months and had the potential for action gotten too close, it could've been nipped.

Why go public now? Not only or even necessarily the Iranian people. There's more to it. We'll see...