White House to curb Intelligence sharing with Congress following Iran strike leak

The White House is readying to curtail the organisation of classified quality to members of Congress, pursuing the leak of a preliminary assessment connected the consequences of U.S. strikes against Iran’s atomic facilities, a elder authoritative confirmed to NBC News.

According to the official, the U.S. authorities intends to reduce the measurement of accusation shared via CAPNET, the unafraid level utilized for transmitting classified documents to Congress.

The determination has already triggered strong backlash from Democratic lawmakers.

“The medication indispensable instantly reverse this decision,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “They don’t privation the existent facts to travel out. They lone privation their version—Trump’s version—which we cognize often doesn’t bespeak the truth.”

Republicans, meanwhile, are focusing connected the leak itself, specifically the preliminary study from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which concluded that Iran’s atomic programme had been delayed by lone three to six months contempt the strikes.

“The leak was unsafe and outrageous. We are moving to place who is responsible, and we volition hole the problem,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. When asked whether helium suspects a subordinate of Congress, helium responded, “That’s my gut feeling.”

However, contempt the White House’s tightening of procedures, determination is presently no evidence indicating that a subordinate of Congress was liable for the leak.