Reporters should be legally banned from dealing with intelligence issues of any kind - ever.
Take this logical mind-number: “The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted” Um, if it was soo successful then why would the US need to bomb Iran?? The operation was trying to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program.
Nobody talks about withdrawing spies. If you did, your citizens would never be allowed to travel because every other country would think they are all spies. You would never be able to get into countries like Iran if they knew you were spying. So it’s pretty obvious that nobody involved in intelligence is going to talk to the media about it.
Only politician-turds who are on the outside but wish they were on the inside talk to the media.
OH, and pro-terrorist types LOVE to leak crap like to the media knowing that it will run with virtually no fact checking. It’s called counter-intelligence propaganda. Iran and it’s allies get to claim that it is a victim of the US without the US having done anything. Fidel Castro, anyone?
this reporter would not have written any such thing if it were not “leaked” to him by the agency that wanted this to be published. This item may or may not be true at all. A government wanted it published. The government’s reason for that is obscure.