Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Guardian

Sun 29 Jun 2025 12.29 EDT
Last modified on Sun 29 Jun 2025 12.45 EDT


Donald Trump said he is weighing forcing journalists who published leaked details from a US intelligence report assessing the impact of the recent American military strikes on Iran to reveal their sources – and the president also claimed his administration may prosecute those reporters and sources if they don’t comply.

In an interview Sunday with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo, Trump doubled down on his claim that the 21 June airstrikes aimed at certain Iranian facilities successfully crippled Iran’s nuclear program. He insisted the attacks destroyed key enriched uranium stockpiles, despite Iranian assertions that the material had been relocated before the strikes.

Trump dismissed the leaked intelligence assessment in question – which suggested the strikes only temporarily disrupted Iran’s nuclear development – as incomplete and biased. The report, circulated among US lawmakers and intelligence officials, concluded that the damage inflicted was significantly less than what Trump’s administration had publicly claimed.

The president has attacked both Democratic lawmakers and members of the media for sharing portions of the classified analysis. He then threatened legal consequences for those responsible.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/29/trump-iran-military-strike-report

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. How? NT

[Irish_Dem]

2. Throw them in a brutal jail until they talk.

Ruin their careers, lives, homes, family as well.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Will that be a real investigation?

Or a witch hunt? I'd laugh like hell if they find out that it's Fox.

[Captain Zero]

5. Probably someone the Maltese Russian hired

One of the Russian Assets in the white house.

[vapor2]

4. Hungry for control of our media (and our lives)

[markodochartaigh]

6. I read,

but didn't confirm, that they didn't share the attack information with Secretary of Defense Whisky Pete, so I guess that they can rule out that the leaks came from Jack Daniel, James Beam, or John Walker.

[Hugin]

8. Or Hopsbreath's wife, divorce attorney, gardener, brother, Patton Oswalt, his tailor...

Door Dash, any journalists with “Gold” or “Stein” in their names, Hank’s Tattoos, most of Signal, the shapely blonde he sends drinks to at the end of the bar, & etcetera.

I may have missed a few.

[GB_RN]

12. Maybe...

It was Mr Smirnoff who leaked it? 🥴 (hiccup)

[Gimpyknee]

7. What a f'en blowhard.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. I wonder if he's ever heard of the 'Pentagon Papers'

and how that turned out for Daniel Ellsburg, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

This is a kids' lemonade stand in comparison.

[pecosbob]

10. Haven't a clue...it was left outside my office door.

[Historic NY]

11. There are also private satellite photos

https://www.rferl.org/a/satellite-images-iran-nuclear-cleans-up-air-strikes/33455411.html]

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Impeachment offense number 664?