Iran Battle Damage Assessment Leaks Condemned

It would be pretty to think that all Americans are patriots who love their country and would never sell it out for 30 pieces of silver. We know that’s not, and never has been, true. Think of Benedict Arnold. When we are now faced with a modern existential threat, nuclear warheads, it seems extra treasonous. Leaking early battle damage assessments is totally on brand for The Left. Someone is out there leaking like a fire hydrant.

Even as our bada$$ B2 pilots were delivering their payloads a majority of those on The Left were doubting the efficacy of those efforts. I am not wrong thinking it’s The Left leaking the Battle Damage Assessments, fairly though, the Right has just as many ratfink, pig children. The Washington types would sell their Mother for recognition and/or money.

You know who was thrilled to write up the leaked Battle Damage Assessment? CNN:

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.

The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.

The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”

This hedging of bets is typical of the Intelligence Community. We could know more when we know more, right? Trump envoy Steve Witkoff thinks this is treasonous. So do I. From The Hill:

Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top envoy to the Middle East, blasted what he called “treasonous” leaking of information after multiple media outlets reported that the administration’s strikes on Iran only set its nuclear program back a few months.

“Well, it goes without saying that leaking that type of information, whatever the information, whatever side it comes out on, is outrageous,” Steve Witkoff told Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle” Tuesday night. “It’s treasonous.”

“So it ought to be investigated and whoever did it, whoever is responsible for it should have been — should be held accountable,” Witkoff said. “It could hurt lives in the future. There is — leaking is a completely unacceptable thing.”

CNN, The New York Times and other news outlets reported Tuesday that an internal government report found strikes on the three facilities over the weekend delayed Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months, despite initial assertions from Trump administration officials that those sites had been destroyed.

The report also said Iran had moved much of its enriched uranium before the strikes, according to multiple outlets.

The Battle Damage Assessment written right away, asserts that Iran was only set back by a couple of months and that the fissile material was driven off.

This morning at NATO President Trump, Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Rubio were not pleased and pushed back, according to The Independent:

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.

CNN was the first to report on the assessment’s findings, with multiple other outlets confirming their reporting soon after on Tuesday.

Hegseth said: “The amount of munitions — six per location — any assessment that tells you it was something otherwise, is speculating with other motives, and we know that, because when you actually look at the report — by the way, it was a top secret report — it was preliminary, it was low-confidence, so you make assessments based on what you know.”

The secretary criticized the media for its reporting, pushing back by saying: “Those that dropped the bombs precisely in the right place know exactly what happened when that exploded.”

“And you know who else knows: Iran,” he continued.

“If you want to make an assessment of what happened at Fordow, you better get a big shovel and go really deep, because Iran’s nuclear program is obliterated,” Hegseth added.

Rubio called the leakers “professional stabbers.”

“On this stuff about the intelligence — this is what a leaker is telling you the intelligence says,” he said. “That’s the game these people play. They read it and then they go out and characterize it the way they want.”

Here are the words from Secretary Rubio’s mouth:

Fight back and find out who the leaker is using the FBI. That’s stop this treason.

Donald “Daddy” Trump Calls Out Fake News for disparaging our great military and using deep state leaks to lie about the damage to the Iranian nuclear facilities. pic.twitter.com/mZGqQZa452

— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) June 25, 2025

CNN and the New York Times need to ask themselves why Iran would so quickly come to the negotiating table if they removed the fissile material and their nuclear program was only set back by a few months. Hmmmm? Also, I bet that Israel had some of the Israeli Defenses Forces get eyes on the holes that the B2 bombers left to see what was going on.

We have to make being a spy or a stabber less lucrative.

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