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CNN Reporter Trashes 'Operation Midnight Hammer,' But Her Story Just Fell Apart
The Western Journal via MSN ^ | June 25, 2025 | Josh Manning

Posted on 06/25/2025 9:22:02 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Late in the day Tuesday, CNN breathlessly ran their favorite story since the Trump-Musk bromance hit the skids.

"Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say."

CNN’s “reporters” could barely contain their excitement that their nightmare scenario was over: Trump, it appeared, hadn’t pulled off the most impressive military strike since "Operation Desert Fox." ("Desert Fox" was a 1998 anti-WMD mission, also used Tomahawks for support, but used 600 sorties to target almost 100 targets in Iraq. And as with "Operation Midnight Hammer," not a single U.S. service member or vehicle was lost.)

Citing unnamed sources (surprise, surprise -- but we’ll be magnanimous and mention that they did at least tell us there were seven of them), CNN claimed a Defense Intelligence Agency report’s findings were “at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes ‘completely and totally obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.”

“So the [DIA] assessment is that the U.S. set them back maybe a few months, tops,” one member of CNN’s septet of sources said, also claiming that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile and centrifuges were mostly “intact.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wasted no time in taking apart the leaker and CNN:

This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as "top secret" but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community. The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.

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TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: cnn; iran; natashabertrand; nuclearstrikes; operationhammer; opmidnightdrip; politico
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To: EliRoom8

Anyone who declares Trump is a dictator, USA is fascist or there is no freedom of speech should pay special attention to the fact “journalists” like these are still breathing. I can assure you Hitler would not stand for such public statements and antagonism from his opposition.

Right there? Your PC crapping out on ya?


21 posted on 06/25/2025 10:32:34 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Fire and close the entire department to make an example out of leakers.


22 posted on 06/25/2025 10:40:33 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: Judge Bean

“Find out who leaked Top Secret Docs and bring them up on espionage charges.”

Yep. Give them the Rosenberg treatment.


23 posted on 06/25/2025 11:43:30 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
In depth assessment here from The Institute for Science and International Security:

https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/post-attack-assessment-of-the-first-12-days-of-israeli-strikes-on-iranian-nuclear-facilities

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24 posted on 06/25/2025 11:55:15 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This (alleged assessment) is flat-out wrong and was classified as “top secret” but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community.

AKA PROPAGANDA mole agent

Nothing from the MSM hype can be trusted.


25 posted on 06/25/2025 12:35:29 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: AndyJackson
"So they had low-confidence that they even did what little bit they did do? [ducking]"

I have argued that we should have made Mossad sapper Ferdow from the inside first, and then immediately collapsed it, but TrumpII is ... he's either impatient or decisive depending on how you reckon his pov.

Trump's realpolitick is, is Iran's refinement reckt through the mid-terms (likely); and would Mossad-driven regime change bring a treaty handshake on the South Lawn between Shah Jr and Bebe in a mutual-recognition treaty (unlikely).

26 posted on 06/25/2025 2:01:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I miss Bobbie Battista.


27 posted on 06/25/2025 4:21:21 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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