In the hours after the American strike at the nuclear facility of Iran’s Fordow, CNN’s Natasha Bertrand got the ball of your life, a leaked report with little damage. But it turns out that it is now anything but certain that Bertrand and CNN were manipulated by political actors.
In the days since then everyone of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Israeli government, the Central Intelligence Agency, has assessed President Trump himself that much more damage has been caused than the initial “low trust” report.
Trump goes behind CNN, NY Times for ‘fake news’ about strikes about Iranian nuclear facilities
The incident underlines a serious problem for journalism: the immediate gullibility that the liberal media give to each leaker with information that is harmful to President Trump, lets the American citizen misinformed incorrectly.
We all owe a debt to the Leaker who acts selfless and altruistic to reveal important information that the government hides. But leakers who undergo selective information to damage the president for part -time reasons? That is a very different species. Reporters must be able to recognize the difference to get the public good information in the right context.
The reason that journalists from traditional spekers have given a high level of confidence is that they supposedly endanger themselves to reveal the truth. This is comparable to the legal concept that has more weight admission to its own interest.
But in today’s political and media environment, Zekers is almost never imprisoned and punished. We still have no idea who leaked the Dobbs decision of the Supreme Court, for example, so these strikers, these insiders, have learned to play the system.
This time it is essential that the Trump administration focuses on finding and punishing the Fordow leakers. This can improve American journalism quickly and dramatically.
When Bertrand reportedly spoke with seven people for her story that the damage to the Iranian nuclear program minimized, did she wonder why these deep state people wanted the half -baked story? Because it was almost certainly not pure patriotic duty.
If it had been true that President Trump exaggerated the damage to Fordow, and a leaker put himself in danger to let the US and the world know that Iran still had an imminent nuclear threat, perhaps that would have been a just act. But the leaked report came well before a full assessment was made and was full of a warning. There was much less in this report than the eye. Whether it was the leaker or Bertrand himself who hid this important context is not very important. It is up to the press to place such information in the right perspective.
Arlington, Virginia – 22 June: American Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth (L), accompanied by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Then Caine (R), takes a question from a reporter during a press conference in the Pentagon on 22 June 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. US President Donald Trump gave a speech to the nation last night after three Iranian nuclear facilities were struck by the US Army. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty images) (Getty Images)
Anyone at CNN said: “Hey, you know, there could be a political agenda behind it and we may not get the whole story?” It certainly doesn’t look like it.
CNN claims that from the start they said that the report was low confidence, but has media research center the coupons. Bertrand’s first report says nothing about ‘low trust’. Or her familiar sources showed that part, or she lied through omission.
Days later, CNN ran with this story, with every show that led with the Blockbuster -Lek that is politically motivated nonsense.
I am sorry to inform you, dear reader, that CNN and points of sale of his peers will not change or reform. The Trump government can sue everything they want, because in this case it threatens to do with CNN and the New York Times, but that is not the answer.
When it comes to anti-Trump stories, CNN is as a heroin addict, and these deep-Staten leakers are their connection, which offer endless solutions of short-term blissfulness that have cratered the credibility of the network in the long term.
The answer is to punish the leakers. The answer is to return to the original transaction, namely that we take your leak seriously because you risk prison to reveal it. Without the prison section, the entire concept falls into pieces. Leaks can simply be political hits, without fingerprints.
Those who are the deep Trump haters who leaked this report damaged Trump’s ability to negotiate with Iran and possibly endanger methods and sources of intelligence by quoting intelligence signals.
For these reasons alone, the leakers, who were in positions of knowledge and trust, must be punished. White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt was right this week when she said they “had to go to prison.”
When it comes to anti-Trump stories, CNN is as a heroin addict, and these deep-Staten leakers are their connection, which offer endless solutions of short-term blissfulness that have cratered the credibility of the network in the long term.
It is not enough to punish the addict. We have to punish the dealers those half truths to undermine the president of the United States.
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Simply put, it’s time to re -create secret information. To end this game of deep state officials who play footsie with the liberal media, we need Natasha Bertrand to start with her sources: “Sorry, I’m not going to prison for this.”
Donald Trump ran, and won twice, on a promise to remove the swamp, to make the DC deskucration more efficient and effective. Is it a miracle when the goals of this effort go to the news media to undermine his administration?
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This time the message must be loud and clear to the Leakers that if you break the law, you go to prison, it doesn’t matter how much your Donald Trump hates or how just you believe that hatred is.
Once that is understood, the deep state to destroy news information pipeline once and for all, perhaps, perhaps, the deep state to falsify news information.
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