Defense Official Proposed Targeting Iranian Scientists During Daytime to Maximize Casualties

What was said

"David Kaye just randomly pipes in, well, if we start bombing, we should do it during the day. And I'm, you know, I'm a former Army officer. Like, we own the night. Like, what the fuck are you talking about? So Ash Carter says, that's interesting, why would you bomb during the day? And without skipping a beat, David Kaye says, 'To kill their scientists.' Two years later, remember those motorcyclists who would roll in, put a sticky bomb in the window? That started happening."

At a 2000s-era Pentagon meeting attended by Defense officials including Ash Carter, UN weapons inspector David Kaye advocated bombing Iran during daytime specifically to kill scientists, contradicting standard military doctrine. Ryan connects this recommendation to subsequent assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, suggesting the meeting influenced actual operations.