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BumRushDaShow

(157,393 posts) Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:35 PM Jun 25

Hegseth says FBI probing Iran nuclear site damage report leak, confirming top secret assessment is real

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 25 June 2025 13:25 EDT

The FBI has begun investigating how a preliminary intelligence assessment regarding the impact of U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites became public, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters.

Speaking to the press at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands, Hegseth confirmed the top-secret report – which suggested the attack had not wiped out the Iranian nuclear program as claimed by President Donald Trump – was real but emphasized that it was a “preliminary” and “low-confidence” assessment, not a final conclusion about the damage caused.

Both Donald Trump and Hegseth have repeatedly stated since Saturday night that the bombing of three nuclear facilities was successful, with the president claiming that they had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s enrichment facilities.

“We are doing a leak investigation with the FBI now, because this information is for internal purposes — battle damage investigation — and CNN and others are trying to spin it to try and make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success,” Hegseth told reporters in the Hague, standing beside the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The preliminary report from the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) stated that the strikes on three sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan only set back Tehran’s nuclear ambitions by a few months.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-iran-strike-damage-report-leak-fbi-b2776900.html

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Hegseth says FBI probing Iran nuclear site damage report leak, confirming top secret assessment is real (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 25 OP

Hog's Breath, I.O.W.s it was a failure but the real problem is that CNN and others are reporting the truth ... Botany Jun 25 #1

GOPers will hang some poor bastard for telling the truth BoRaGard Jun 25 #2

Drunk DOD empty suit needs to find out who leaked the truth Attilatheblond Jun 25 #3

FBI will find that Hegseth himself leaked the information by passing his phone # Prairie Gates Jun 25 #4

Go after those who tell the truth - Nigrum Cattus Jun 25 #5

Check Kegsbreath's cellphone to see who he texted it to. Norrrm Jun 25 #6

I dare any reporter to ask if it was because a reporter was unwittingly added to a Signal session ... eppur_se_muova Jun 25 #7

Trump's a loser and a liar? Color me surprised. cstanleytech Jun 25 #8

Probably some Drunk Ass using Signal Chat Sane1 Jun 25 #9

Another example of a crimnal enterprise using the "Authoritarian Breakthrough" method turbinetree Jun 25 #10

Break VanceFan Jun 26 #11

In other words... AntiFascist Jun 27 #12

Botany

(74,884 posts)

1. Hog's Breath, I.O.W.s it was a failure but the real problem is that CNN and others are reporting the truth ...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:45 PM

Jun 25

….. just to make Krasnov look bad besides we are doing a leak investigation with the FBI.
Up is down, black is white, snow is not cold, and water is not wet.

BoRaGard

(6,599 posts)

2. GOPers will hang some poor bastard for telling the truth

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:46 PM

Jun 25

Trumpanzees cannot and will not tolerate truth.

Attilatheblond

(6,779 posts)

3. Drunk DOD empty suit needs to find out who leaked the truth

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:48 PM

Jun 25

Cuz the Liar In Chief is pissed about being contradicted.

Prairie Gates

(5,744 posts)

4. FBI will find that Hegseth himself leaked the information by passing his phone #

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:51 PM

Jun 25

on the back of a page of the report's executive summary to some cutie pie at the bar at the Jack Rose Dining Saloon who turned out to be a college intern at the New York Times DC office.

Nigrum Cattus

(769 posts)

5. Go after those who tell the truth -

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:52 PM

Jun 25

The "leak" DID NOT compromise our national security !
And I would argue it enhanced our security !

Norrrm

(2,556 posts)

6. Check Kegsbreath's cellphone to see who he texted it to.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:54 PM

Jun 25

eppur_se_muova

(39,549 posts)

7. I dare any reporter to ask if it was because a reporter was unwittingly added to a Signal session ...

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:56 PM

Jun 25

Man, "unwitting" is carrying a lot of weight in this administration.

cstanleytech

(27,810 posts)

8. Trump's a loser and a liar? Color me surprised.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:58 PM

Jun 25

Sane1

(169 posts)

9. Probably some Drunk Ass using Signal Chat

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:30 PM

Jun 25

Whiskey Pete must have gotten drunk and was chatting with a girlfriend on Signal Chat and expected her to clean up the mess.

turbinetree

(26,426 posts)

10. Another example of a crimnal enterprise using the "Authoritarian Breakthrough" method

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:43 PM

Jun 25

to lay blame on someone else BS when this neo -fascist fucker leaked classified information off a signal chat device............when he had a group chat on bombing Houthies............and he is going to use the FBI to find the leak.............take a fucking look in the mirror...............again the US Senate and the US Supreme court are why this country is in the bucket of proverbial shit............ .....................JFC............