In the aftermath of a leak of an internal intelligence assessment suggesting that the bombings of Iran’s nuclear facilities weren’t as successful as President Donald Trump claimed, the administration plans to limit sharing classified information with Congress, four sources told Axios on Wednesday.
The leaking of the preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency’s “Battle Damage Assessment” enraged Trump, who said it was incomplete and that its release was meant only to undercut his claims that Iran’s nuclear sites had been “obliterated.”
“We are declaring a war on leakers,” a senior White House official said. “The intelligence community is figuring out how to tighten up their processes so we don’t have ‘Deep State’ actors leaking parts of intel analysis that have ‘low confidence’ to the media.”
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