After getting torched by the Trump Administration, CNN is now panicking and reporting the TRUTH about the U.S. strikes on Iran:
“It worked… flawlessly. Completely destroyed. Those centrifuges are gone. Fordow is inoperable.. Probably forever.”
Reporter: “What we now know from that briefing, first time we know it, is that as it was designed, as these massive ordnance penetrators with significant computer software engineering went directly down to those three ventilator shafts, specifically as designed, and until you actually do it, you never know if it’s going to work. It worked. It seems to have worked flawlessly. That is very important information.”
“The official also pointed out some things we take for granted. You know, a Patriot interceptor is traveling at 3,000 miles an hour, about Mach 4, to hit a ballistic missile traveling at about 6,000 miles an hour, Mach 8. This is really difficult. We take for granted how this stuff all works. I thought that was very important to lay out. So as I come out of this briefing, I now know BDA Level 2, as I mentioned. Level 1, the first 24 hours, you’re looking at imagery. Level 2, did the ordinance work? Did everything go as we had wanted? The answer now is yes.”
“And we’re now in the phase of Level 3, collecting all sources of intelligence information and then putting that together with nuclear experts to determine if they have these pieces and parts here, could they reconstitute them? With some political analysts to say, would the Iranians do that? What would be the restraints to then have a comprehensive assessment of where we are? With the objective being Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and its enrichment program has to be completely destroyed.”
“I think from what I’ve seen, the 20,000 centrifuges you had, about 17,000 in the Tans, about 3,000 in Fordow, they are all completely destroyed. I am very confident those centrifuges are gone. The Israelis destroyed the centrifuge manufacturing production facilities that we know of. Isfahan, which is the conversion facility, a key part of the fuel cycle, will also appear to have been destroyed. So if you add it up from what we’re seeing, massive, catastrophic setback for Iran’s program. The term of art: obliterated, destroyed.”
“I kind of step out of that. This is an analytical process. It’s important for the professionals now in the intelligence community to be able to do their work without political pressure and come out with their assessments, and we’ll know soon enough. There’s a lot of work going on here from U.S. intelligence agencies, from Mossad and the Israelis, from other partners. But I thought that briefing was important. We now know that operation that was developed over multiple administrations worked exactly as it was designed.”
“So we didn’t, I didn’t know that, I couldn’t have confirmed that 24 hours ago. I now know those three ventilator shafts, they went down there, and it worked. That’s new, and that means probably Fordow is rendered inoperable for the foreseeable future, probably forever.”