Today you're going to hear a lot of angry talk about North Korea supplying Syria with a nuclear reactor. "Video evidence" everyone will say, based on articles like this one. First, Congressional Intelligence Committee members are going to be seeing, "images from a video, believed to have been obtained through Israeli intelligence services." Not the video, stills from it.

Second, it's worth keeping in mind the provenance of this video. Martha Raddatz at ABC News last year talked about how Israeli intelligence, "managed to either co-opt one of the facility's workers or to insert a spy posing as an employee," and that is undoubtedly the source of this video we're hearing about now.

What we're looking at here is another Curveball-like scenario in which Israeli intelligence and their American backers were snookered into thinking a strike needed to happen, and it needed to happen right away against a nuclear threat that cannot be proven. It's another smoking gun in the shape of a mushroom cloud incident, and all it's served to do is ratchet up the pressure in the Middle East and give the haters of ending the North Korean threat another opportunity to tube a decade of highly effective diplomacy.

For a more authoritative read on the Syrian box, see Seymour Hersh.