Executive Branch

FBI Investigating Leak of Iran Strike Intelligence Report: Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the report was top-secret and preliminary and that its conclusion is one of low confidence.
FBI Investigating Leak of Iran Strike Intelligence Report: Hegseth
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Department of Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the FBI is probing the leak of an intelligence assessment indicating that the U.S. weekend strikes on three Iranian sites only delayed the country’s nuclear program by months rather than completely destroying it.

“We’re doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle-damage assessments,” Hegseth said at the NATO summit in the Netherlands on June 25.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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