Posted on 06/25/2025 9:47:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is launching a probe into a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report leaked to CNN assessing damage from President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
Hegseth announced the probe during the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, saying that the media’s reporting on the leak was spun “to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.” The report was first leaked to CNN, which reported that the preliminary findings suggested that the strikes on Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan nuclear facilities on June 21 did not completely destroy Iran’s nuclear program as Trump claimed.
“We’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments,” Hegseth said.
CNN cited seven anonymous sources who were briefed on the report, who said that Iran’s nuclear program would only be set back months. However, the White House and a senior DIA official pushed back on the reported findings, saying that the assessment was incomplete and did not reflect the full picture of the damage to the nuclear sites.
Additionally, the Iranian Foreign Ministry admitted that the nuclear sites were “badly damaged” despite the reports.
“This is a preliminary, low confidence report & will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available,” the DIA official said in a statement posted by Pentagon Spokesperson Sean Parnell. “We are working with the appropriate authorities to investigate the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.”
The FBI told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it could not confirm or deny any specific investigation.
“Based on everything we have seen — and I’ve seen it all — our bombing campaign obliterated Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. Our massive bombs hit exactly the right spot at each target—and worked perfectly,” Hegseth told the DCNF in a statement. “The impact of those bombs is buried under a mountain of rubble in Iran; so anyone who says the bombs were not devastating is just trying to undermine the President and the successful mission.”
Sounds like 7 leakers. If the FIBBERS can’t find any perps to arrest they aren’t looking very hard.
Aren’t CNN personnel also breaking the law receiving unauthorized classified materials?...........
no- not if it was given to them voluntarily and they did not steal it themselves...
The report was self-described as a “low confidence assessment”.
A low confidence assessment refers to a situation where the assessor or analyst has significant doubts or limitations regarding the accuracy or reliability of the assessment.
This CNN scheisser decided, “ That’s right up our alley. “
The DIA does multiple assessments for planned and executed operations.
Where is the NYT leaker?
At an undisclosed location hiding out from the Feds with the White House cubby narcotics user, the Jan.6 mystery bomb guy and the one who leaked the coming SCOTUS decision against Roe v Wade.
Proof positive that this was a deep state intel op is that Muslim, commie, Obama lackey John Brennan was on MSNBC whooping it up that Trump was finished. So obvious. I hope all the deep state commie rats get trapped.
My guess is very few created the preliminary report and had access to it. It should be easy to figure out who the leaker(s) is
The damage report is intended to try to pressure Trump into bombing more and mocking his success. More of the scrotes inside the intelligence community working against him, like last time.
I was against him bombing at first and thought he was going to drag us into a new war. But his bombing is a masterstroke. He knocked the supports out from under the Mullahs, did not harm normal Iranians, and forced the Israelis to stop. And now the mullahs regime is sure to collapse. The neocons thought they had their next 15 year war.
So Mossad and CIA are doing all they can to pretend it was a failure.
“Aren’t CNN personnel also breaking the law receiving unauthorized classified materials?...........”
Only if you are Julian Assange or Glen Greenwald, someone like that...
When you find them, hang them. Set an example.
Charge them w felony and arrest without parole.
The Mossad report from men who have inspected the surface is the attack was successful. That’s not a leak. That’s directly from Trump.
So this would appear to be a domestic CIA source that is allied with the military industrial complex here that is pushing the narrative that the attacks were not successful so they can keep the fear of Iran alive to sell more weapons.
Not that there are not also unfaithful deep state actors in the Mossad. I have no doubt they are everywhere.
The FBI has the full confidence of its favorite fanboy Kash Patel. Maybe a couple of others.
A “low confidence assessment” and a low IQ reporter............
WTF is Tulsi? The leaker (s) share her sentiments. They need to be severely punished and DNI fired.
And now we know why the dems weren’t briefed in on the op.
They were, they just lied about it...............
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