The Pentagon has launched a criminal investigation into the leak of a classified Defense Intelligence Agency report assessing that damage to Iranian nuclear facilities from U.S. airstrikes didn’t significantly set back Tehran’s nuclear program.
“We’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at the NATO summit on Wednesday. He added that press reports detailing the findings are meant to “spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.”
Seated next to President Donald Trump, NATO chief Mark Rutte and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the start of a day of meetings, Hegseth didn’t provide details of the investigation, but did confirm the classified intelligence assessment and its findings, saying its conclusions are “low confidence.” The comments came after both Trump and Rubio referred to the news reports as fake stories.
Damage to the facilities was “moderate to severe, and we believe far more likely severe and obliterated,” Hegseth said.
Rubio told POLITICO on Wednesday that Iran is now “much further away from a nuclear weapon” after the U.S. dropped 14 bombs weighing 30,000 pounds each on three of Iran’s main nuclear sites.
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