I'll accept that SAR could be used in extremis (low cloud) as a CAS tool - a georegistered image on which the JTAC could place target coordinates; but two observations. First, it is not unique to the F-35 and second, that's not what anyone in Congress would have gathered from Dunford's remarks. "One meter" is not the everyday interpretation of high fidelity.
I'd be interested in comments on Dunford's win-the-war-with-eight-jets line. Does that not suggest that the QEs are three times bigger than they need to be? Because if I think back to my early CV briefs, the size started with sorties needed to win the war.