News articles are now alleging that the U.S. attacks on key Iranian nuclear facilities only set

the country's nuclear programs back by a few months. The claims have been pushed by various outlets,

mainly CNN and New York Times, but are based on unnamed sources, allegedly in the U.S.

intelligence community. And the claims have since been harshly denied by President Donald Trump and by members

of his administration. And also interestingly, as part of the rebuttal, they're also pointing

out the broader problems of how intelligence leaks can be used to frame false narratives.

I'll be deep diving into the intelligence reports today, how they actually work, plus many other stories.

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Now look, after the United States launched attacks on key Iranian nuclear facilities,

news articles are now alleging the attacks basically did nothing. They're saying the attacks only

set the country's nuclear programs back by a few months. They dropped all those bunker buster bombs,

which are massive bombs, and they just didn't do anything, they say. The claims are based

on an alleged top secret assessment, and now the Trump administration is

criticizing various news outlets for running these assessments and claiming their fact.

And also explain interestingly how intelligence leaks can actually be used to skew facts and

things like this. Now, the claims have been pushed out by various outlets, but are based

on unnamed sources allegedly in the U.S. intelligence community. The two being called out the most

right now are CNN and the New York Times, which the Trump administration has been criticizing

very heavily for this. Now, the CNN report said that unnamed sources had seen quote early

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