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Trump Reveals Who Leaked Iranian Intelligence Report To Liberal Outlets
Trending Politics ^ | 6/26/2025 | Cullen McCue

Posted on 06/26/2025 5:08:32 PM PDT by Signalman

President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Democrat lawmakers are responsible for leaking top secret intelligence about last week’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

“The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the nuclear sites in Iran,” the president posted on Truth Social. “They should be prosecuted!”

The post comes as the Pentagon, along with assistance from the FBI, is actively working to identify the source of leaks about a preliminary Central Command battle damage assessment. At least one anonymous source leaked the information, which was preliminary, to CNN and the New York Times.

Both outlets have claimed that “early U.S. intelligence assessments” indicate that the strikes were not as effective as previously thought. “The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities,” CNN reported.

In addition, the reports have claimed that the strikes on Iran’s Fordow uranium enrichment site — the heavily-fortified facility that was targeted by multiple bunker buster bombs — caused largely surface-level damage and can be re-built relatively quickly.

Senior members of the Trump Administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe have thoroughly debunked the reports by noting that the assessment in question was merely preliminary.

The Pentagon, in conjunction with the FBI, will be probing who had access to a report by the Defense Intelligence Agency, its intelligence arm, Hegseth told reporters.

“When you talk to people who built the bombs, understand what those bombs can do and deliver those bombs, they landed precisely where they were supposed to,” Hegseth said.

“So it was a flawless mission … Any assessment that tells you something otherwise is speculating with other motives. And we know that because when you actually look at the report — by the way, it was a top secret report — it was preliminary, it was low confidence. All right. … And we believe far more likely severe and obliterated. So this is a political motive here.”

In response to the relentless pushback and disclosure of additional information, CNN has been quietly walking back the explosive claims in its initial report. Brett McGurk, a CNN global affairs analyst and former diplomat, went so far as to assert that President Trump’s planned operation “worked flawlessly.”

“These massive [bombs], with significant computer software engineering, went directly down to those three ventilated shafts specifically as designed,” he said Thursday. “It worked. It seems it worked flawlessly.”

McGurk further noted that the Pentagon’s battle damage assessment is not yet complete and will continue to develop in the coming days.


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To: angry elephant

That contact was to advise the attack was going to take place, Trump is referring to afterwards.


41 posted on 06/26/2025 8:18:42 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

That I did not know.


42 posted on 06/26/2025 8:20:00 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Signalman

Two people can keep a secret if one of them is a dead democrat.


43 posted on 06/26/2025 8:45:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Signalman

The analysis that Dems leaked was supposedly posted to a news hub Congress critters can access. I suspect it was a sting operation to see who would leak it, and to whom.

I’ve seen the video where the bunker buster sinks through what would be the ‘roof’ of the nuke site like a spoon dropped in water, and then flames shooting out the doorways. I think they hit their targets.


44 posted on 06/26/2025 8:46:59 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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>> Trump reveals who leaked...

>> Trump suggested [that Democrat leaked]...

well that narrowed it down to what we already knew


45 posted on 06/26/2025 9:48:50 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: napscoordinator

the leak was a report after the bombing


46 posted on 06/26/2025 10:02:41 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: Signalman

it did seem early for a report

maybe a mole in dia prepared it specifically

so it could be leaked


47 posted on 06/26/2025 10:06:28 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Along with Rashida Tliab.


48 posted on 06/26/2025 10:09:04 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Beowulf

The sooner the better.


49 posted on 06/26/2025 10:09:24 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: napscoordinator

” Trump said he didn’t trust them so did the exercise without Dems knowledge.”

Yes he did, but they are talking about the post sortie evaluation of damage assessment. And that information comes out in committee where a number of people hear it. But this evaluation was an early stage fact finding meeting and not the final assessment. So whoever leaked it jumped the gun and didn’t have the total information, or even really much of it. But in their zeal to harm Trump, they got too eager and took the first thing they could use right or wrong. Typical...

wy69


50 posted on 06/26/2025 10:30:38 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: Signalman
Both outlets have claimed that “early U.S. intelligence assessments” indicate that the strikes were not as effective as previously thought. “The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities,” CNN reported.

If that were accurate more B2s Spirit Bombers would return to put more bombs in the exact same holes they made. If they return it is for need. If they do not return it because of no need.

51 posted on 06/26/2025 11:06:19 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Signalman

BTTT


52 posted on 06/26/2025 11:50:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: caww

Thx


53 posted on 06/27/2025 1:19:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: angry elephant

Schumer did have to go the hospital recently for “dehydration”.... maybe he was told they knew it was him and he would be prosecuted and his mouth went dry.


54 posted on 06/27/2025 3:22:39 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: Signalman

“President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that Democrat lawmakers are responsible for leaking top secret intelligence”

What are the odds it was a Democrat? Good guess, POTUS! 😵‍💫


55 posted on 06/27/2025 3:57:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Signalman

I don’t see names.


56 posted on 06/27/2025 4:19:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Signalman

“Trump Reveals Who Leaked Iranian Intelligence Report”

I didn’t see who leaked the report in the article.


57 posted on 06/27/2025 4:28:14 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: napscoordinator

Adam Schiff


58 posted on 06/27/2025 4:30:26 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Signalman

Speaking of attacks, the Democrats have been attacking Trump since 2015. That’s been the one consistent thread in American politics.


59 posted on 06/27/2025 5:20:50 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Signalman

Name names and prosecute....


60 posted on 06/27/2025 5:35:45 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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