CNN reported Wednesday that a leaked preliminary intelligence assessment found that President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iran did not destroy the core components of its nuclear program, but only set it back a few months. On Thursday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pointed to numerous other assessments, including from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the CIA, that contradicted the preliminary findings and bolstered Trump’s case that Fordow and other nuclear facilities were “obliterated.” CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand’s track record of getting major stories involving Trump wrong, particularly on the discredited Steele Dossier and Hunter Biden’s laptop, should make readers skeptical of her latest reporting.
Even if Bertrand’s story accurately captured the preliminary assessment of the damage, the strikes achieved major strategic objectives with minimal
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