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From the Daily Caller: 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.
Hegseth held nothing back while speaking about the situation during a press briefing with President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
WATCH:
. @SecDef just DESTROYED the FAKE NEWS by calling out their LIES after they tried to SMEAR @POTUS and EMBARRASS OUR AMAZING WARFIGHTERS. pic.twitter.com/ZkJUaEIPNm
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) June 25, 2025
President Trump blasted out the following statements on Truth Social, blasting the New York Times, CNN, and CNN’s Natasha Bertrand:
We just caught the Failing New York Times, working with Fake News CNN, cheating again! They tried to demean the great work our B-2 pilots did, and they were wrong in doing so. These reporters are just BAD AND SICK PEOPLE. You would think they would be proud of the great success we had, instead of trying to always make our Country look bad. TOTAL OBLITERATION!
Natasha Bertrand should be FIRED from CNN! I watched her for three days doing Fake News. She should be IMMEDIATELY reprimanded, and then thrown out “like a dog.” She lied on the Laptop from Hell Story, and now she lied on the Nuclear Sites Story, attempting to destroy our Patriot Pilots by making them look bad when, in fact, they did a GREAT job and hit “pay dirt” — TOTAL OBLITERATION!
She should not be allowed to work at Fake News CNN. It’s people like her who destroyed the reputation of a once great Network. Her slant was so obviously negative, besides, she doesn’t have what it takes to be an on camera correspondent, not even close. FIRE NATASHA!
My statement confirming CIA intelligence which contradicts illegally sourced public reporting regarding the destruction of key Iranian nuclear facilities. pic.twitter.com/Ln3b4hfELc
— CIA Director John Ratcliffe (@CIADirector) June 25, 2025
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