CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, formerly a reporter for Politico, is best known for boldly breaking the story of the pivotal and now-discredited letter signed by 51 former top intelligence officials claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story showed “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The letter is viewed by many as having swayed the result of the 2020 presidential election. In June, after President Donald Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, Bertrand reported that “sources” told CNN an early intelligence assessment produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency that the strikes “did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months.” It turned out the strikes caused considerable damage to the sites. The US military was aware there were survivors in the water following the first strike on September 2 and carried out another to both sink the vessel and kill the remaining crew, the sources said.
Author: Elizabeth Stauffer
Published at: 2025-11-30 22:00:12
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