White House to limit intelligence sharing with Congress after leak of early Iran report

Washington – The White House plans to limit the sharing of information with the members of the congress after an early evaluation of the damage caused by American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites fled this week, confirmed a senior White House in NBC News.

The administration specifically plans to publish less information on CAPNET, the system used to share classified documents with the congress, said the manager.

The decision, which will certainly not be well contained with the Democrats, comes when senior officials of the cabinet should provide a classified briefing to Senate members Thursday afternoon about strikes.

“The administration should immediately cancel this decision,” the head of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, DN.Y. “They seem to not want to see the facts to go out. Just Trump’s version of the facts, what we know is often false.”

Axios first pointed out the administration’s intention to limit the information provided to the Congress.

The president of the room, Mike Johnson, R-La., Echoes the indignation of President Donald Trump and his allies on Thursday concerning the early Defense Evaluation Report Agency on American strikes on Iran, which said that his nuclear program had only been returned by three to six months.

“There has been a leak, and we try to go down this. It is dangerous and ridiculous that happened. We will solve this problem, and we will keep the coordination,” Johnson told NBC News. When asked if he thought that the leak came from the congress, the speaker replied: “It’s my hint.”

The legislators had access to the initial assessment concerning the strikes of the Defense Intelligence Agency and were able to see it in a secure place in the Capitol, known as SCIF, as NBC News previously reported. The evaluation was transmitted to management through these official channels.

The Senate is expected to receive a classified briefing on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon, which was initially scheduled for Tuesday. Democrats have decreed the delay in the administration as an effort to hide information on the strikes of the Congress.

The White House is expected to send four senior administration officials to Brief Senators on Thursday, notably Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, defense secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine, president of joint staff chiefs, according to two sources knowing the case.

The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will not be present at the briefing. “The director of the CIA, Ratcliffe, will represent the intelligence community tomorrow while Tulsi Gabbard continues his critical work at DNI. The media transform this into something that it is not,” said a senior administration.

Managers of the Trump administration have embarked on a full -course press from strikes – and early evaluation – defending the military targeting of three main nuclear installations in Iran and claiming their total “obliteration”.

Hegseth and Caine organized a briefing with journalists at the Pentagon Thursday morning in which the Secretary of Defense reprimanded journalists for having published information on the classified early evaluation and Caine detailed what had entered into the operation and the impact that the strikes should have in Iran.

Hegseth stressed that the evaluation was preliminary and underlined a statement that Ratcliffe published on Wednesday saying that the Iranian nuclear program had been “seriously damaged” by strikes and that several key sites had been “destroyed”.