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(NewsNation) — The Trump administration has gone connected the violative implicit a leaked quality study contradicting the White House's claims astir harm caused by U.S. strikes successful Iran.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth volition clasp a quality briefing astatine 8 a.m. EDT, successful which Hegseth volition sermon the study and "fight for the dignity of our large American pilots," according to President Donald Trump.
While Trump has claimed "Operation Midnight Hammer" obliterated Iran's atomic program, a preliminary report from the Defense Intelligence Agency said the strikes acceptable backmost Iran by lone a fewer months.
In a connection to NewsNation, the DIA called its study a "preliminary, debased assurance assessment" and clarified officials "have inactive not been capable to reappraisal the existent carnal sites themselves, which volition springiness america the champion indication."
Trump has blasted CNN, the New York Times and different outlets arsenic "fake news" for reporting connected the assessment, and Trump and Hegseth person claimed the study and its sum disparaged U.S. subject unit progressive successful the attacks.
The DIA study did not instrumentality purpose astatine subject unit — it simply outlined what worked, and what didn't, successful the airstrikes.
Still, the medication is doubling down.
"There was a full and implicit obliteration of Iran's atomic facilities," property caput Karoline Leavitt said. "And due to the fact that of the president's strike, due to the fact that of the precision of our United States subject and this perfectly executed mission, Iran nary longer has the capableness to nutrient a atomic limb arsenic imminently arsenic they did anterior to the strike."
Senators are scheduled to person a classified briefing Wednesday day astir the operation.
"Now, they're trying to get distant with sending lone the caput of authorities and defence ... alternatively of the accustomed quality officials who be the briefings," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., regarding the briefing.
He said the brace of apical Trump officials would supply a "woefully insufficient" briefing.
"If they are the lone ones successful attendance, they volition lone parrot immoderate the president wants them to say," Schumer said.
Senior officials from the CIA and National Intelligence person said caller quality shows the strikes did acold much harm than primitively reported.
NewsNation's Anna Kutz contributed to this report.
