Posted on 06/25/2025 1:32:34 PM PDT by McGruff
The Trump administration plans to limit sharing classified information with Congress after someone leaked an internal assessment suggesting that Saturday's bombings of Iran's nuclear facilities weren't as successful as President Trump claimed, four sources tell Axios.
The FBI also is investigating the leak, the sources said.
Why it matters: The leaking of the preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency's "Battle Damage Assessment" outraged Trump and top U.S. officials, who said it was incomplete and that its release was aimed at undercutting Trump's claims that Iran's nuclear sites had been "obliterated."
"We are declaring a war on leakers," a senior White House official said Wednesday. "The FBI is investigating the leak," the source said. "The intelligence community is figuring out how to tighten up their processes so we don't have 'Deep State' actors leaking parts of intel analysis that have 'low confidence' to the media."
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
Ahighly anticipated classified briefing for members of Congress on the United States’ surprise bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities was abruptly rescheduled on Tuesday morning, infuriating Democratic lawmakers and fueling suspicions that the White House is withholding critical information—including early assessments suggesting that the strikes may have only modestly delayed Iran’s nuclear program.
This is classic…say there are leakers so now they don’t get hammered for not sharing info.
(comment withheld by Texas Eagle so-as not to get Blondi and Patel groupies all covfefe'd up)
It’s total nonsense because Trump had a huge success. They are just trying to change the subject.
Wait, what? "Sources said"??? Somebody leaked a report about a leak?
When you can predict your opponent’s every move, you can get him to paint himself into a corner.
He is putting Congress on notice to knock that sh*t off. Someone will go to jail over this, and should.
Compare ~30% down of this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-22/inside-iran-fordow-nuclear-bunker-bombed-by-us/105446636
to ~80% down of this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-868e3c3d-25ec-43cb-bcc0-8832464b91ca
The US dropped the bunker busters to strike offset from and below the ridgelines, so the explosions were probably at about the right level and off to the side, which would likely make the centrifuges the Iranians still had at Fordow inoperable since they would wobble way too much.
For the actual bombing mission there were no leaks.
Rule out those people and investigate anyone who was added to receive the new stuff.
I think they’ll figure it out.
Remember the Ratcliffe-Signal thing a while back? There are pics of him in the Situation Room.
Leaks are directly proportional to the number of the enemy given classified data.
Enemy = Democrat
“ He is putting Congress on notice to knock that sh*t off. Someone will go to jail over this, and should.”
No. They know not to do this
He’s saying, if this is a legit report, that THIS s is why he’s not telling Congress.
I remember the "give me the man and I'll find you the crime", but I only now get to see, "Give me garbage and I'll make it fit the man."
As a generalization, any breach of security, any sharing of top secret information, any failure to keep operational security - should have a strong consequence for it. Fear is an acceptable motivation.
track down the leaker and prosecute them!!!!!
no one is above the law liberals said!!!!
Good you can’t trust these rats with the info
Someone will go to jail over this, and should.”
Don’t bet the farm on that one.
Yawn
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