Posted on 06/26/2025 6:04:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Citing new intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, said that Iranian nuclear facilities have been destroyed by U.S. airstrikes and that if the Iranians attempted to rebuild those facilities it would likely take them years.
The new Gabbard statement comes as a separate early intelligence assessment found that the United States failed to destroy core component of the Iranian nuclear capacity. According to details of that assessment which were leaked to CNN Tuesday, the strikes only set back Iran by a matter of months.
That report was a product of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the intelligence arm of the Pentagon. The White House has sought to downplay it as “incomplete intelligence,” noting that the assessment was of “low confidence.”
The kerfuffle comes after American B2 bombers dropped 14 30,000-pound GBU-57, or Massive Ordnance Penetrators, on two nuclear facilities buried deep underground in Iran and decades after the U.S. War on Terror, which sowed public doubts about intelligence failures. For his part, President Trump has said unequivocally that the facilities were “obliterated.”
The Israel Atomic Energy Commission said in a statement that the American strike on the reinforced Iranian nuclear site at Fordow “destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.”
Asked about the origin of the intelligence that Gabbard cited, an intelligence official told RealClearPolitics that “this is new U.S. intelligence.”
Gabbard slammed what she described as “the propaganda media” for trying to undermine what was otherwise heralded as a historic bombing campaign and “President Trump’s decisive leadership.”
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It seems that the deep state members of the intel community was trying to undermine a Trump success.
They continue to repeat the lies about a leaked initial assessment. Which was never valid and is still being misrepresented even though there is now more detailed information.
Real Clear Politics simpletons claimed Biden was a sentient being. So, shove it, you lying turds.
The pilots performed their missions. Even if the blasts didn’t succeed 100% (which it appears they did) by what logic would it be a criticism of DJT?
But that’s the childish attempt.
What an awkward month she’s had. Uncomfortable place to be.
They can’t let him win, ever.
No doubt there was a line in a large volume of intelligence information that stated something like “until more evidence is collected there remains questions about how much damage can be confidently conveyed” which they turn into 🐂 💩
But the first, second and i some cases 3rd strikes likely rocked their equipment to the core ( pun intended).
And sewing discord of sorts into the administration. It’s what they do. Cast some doubt into the trust and it cam metastisize.
The woman clearly wants to keep her job.
Yep. The memo was delayed, but she’s got it now and — evidently — taken it to heart.
If Trump walked across the Potomac river barefoot, the press would say, "but he sunk up to his ankles in water."
Every day they just keep on finding new ways to destroy their own credibility. Some eyeballs still watch , however, because they so badly want to believe the lies.
Was her call actually a ruse?? Seems so to me...
That initial Intel source was handled by the same broad that led the stories/lies on Hunter’s laptop = Russian disinformation. Whatever might have been valid in the report was thoroughly corrupted by this broad.
Gabbaard accepting it without investigation is a black mark. Wut, another DEI hire? Geesh.
I see she got Trumps memo. Get with the team or else.
A nuclear enrichment facility is a very sophisticated, high precision operation filled with sensitive equipment and instrumentation
Getting hit by 12 30,000 lb bunker busters is going to ruin pretty much everything in the facilities either by blast damage, frags, cave in, contamination or some other method of destruction.
The salvage operations needed to repair and recommission would be more expensive and dangerous that rebuilding from scratch.
Those facilities are toast.
Maybe they leaked this to see who the mole is! Knowing they destroyed it yet had a meeting to see who would leak the false info.
Maybe they had everything on gimbals and shock mounted. No?
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