Overview

• CNN cited seven anonymous intelligence sources in reporting that Operation Midnight Hammer likely delayed Iran’s nuclear program by only months
• White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced the assessment as “flat-out wrong” and accused the leaker of undermining President Trump
• The FBI has opened an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of the classified U.S. intelligence assessment
• Bill O’Reilly and Chris Cuomo publicly clashed over the journalistic value and risks of relying on anonymous sources for national security reporting
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard asserted that U.S. intelligence confirms the targeted Iranian nuclear sites were destroyed