It's Friday, July 18th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions.

It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

Days after the U.S. struck the nuclear sites in Iran, the president, Donald J. Trump,

issued an assessment.

Really? It was a word.

And that word was obliterated.

Perhaps shockingly, given the track record of our president, he has a history of slight bluster,

and upon occasion has been proved to be not entirely accurate.

So given that, there was reason to question the assessment to take that word on faith,

and therefore initial reports trickled out. Some from the Israelis, some from

the U.S. that said things were less than obliterated. But here is the first big report that got a lot

of play. I'll quote the CNN headline, exclusive early U.S. Intel assessment suggests strikes

on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites. Sources say. This was from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

It was put together within a few hours and days of the strike.

Carolyn Levitt, the spokesman from the White House podium, called it flat out wrong,

and reiterated that the best word was, of course, obliterated.

Soon thereafter, a CIA assessment, which got a lot less attention than that CNN story came out.

The CIA says its intelligence indicates that America's strikes did severely damage Iran's nuclear

program. Okay. And everyone who knows anything will tell you that this is more an art than a science

figuring out what the bomb damage assessment was,

and it would take time. Well, sometime has passed. And today, the Washington Post had their update.

This was the podcast summary of what they found.

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