White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing
Source: Washington Post
The White House plans to limit classified intelligence sharing with Congress after leaks to the press of an early assessment undermined President Donald Trump’s claim that U.S. airstrikes obliterated Iranian nuclear facilities, a senior Trump administration official said, setting the stage for a contentious classified briefing before senators Thursday.
Amid a political battle over what the intelligence shows, the White House is expected to send four of its top national security officials to brief lawmakers: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, administration officials said.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who testified in March that U.S. intelligence agencies assessed that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, will be notably absent.
“Ratcliffe will represent the intelligence community,” the senior Trump administration official said of Gabbard’s absence, speaking on the condition on anonymity to discuss plans not yet made public. “The media is turning this into something it’s not.”
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/25/iran-intelligence-sharing-gabbard/
More, from Axios:
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/iran-bombing-intelligence-trump-congress
The administration sources say they're planning to limit posting on CAPNET, a system the administration uses to share classified information with Congress.
The DIA's assessment on the Iran bombings was put on CAPNET late Monday. The next afternoon, CNN and then the New York Times reported snippets of the assessment.
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Since his first run for president in 2016, when his campaign was investigated for its ties to Russia, Trump has been deeply suspicious of the intelligence community. Tuesday's disclosures only increased that sense of paranoia.
"Trump knows the IC [intelligence community] has spooks who hate his guts," one adviser said.
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I would expect ANY competent and ethical person in the intelligence community to recognize Trump for the Putin lackey, fool, and threat to national and global security that he is.
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