WASHINGTON—Senators received a confidential briefing from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; national security adviser and Secretary of State Marco Rubio; and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe on June 26 regarding the recent “Buster Bomb” strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The meeting came after what has been called a preliminary report credited to anonymous sources of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that was leaked to CNN, which stated that the strikes likely only set Iran back a couple of months, while an additional assessment was released by the CIA reporting that the Iranian facilities have been severely damaged and will take years to rebuild. President Donald Trump and other top U.S. officials have dismissed the leaked report as false.
