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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will hold a press conference this morning.
He's expected to talk about the U.S. military strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites last weekend.
The CIA director, John Radcliffe,
has released a new report on the success of these strikes, as MPR's Tamara Keith reports.
The White House circulated this statement from the CIA on social media.
John Radcliffe, the CIA director, said there's new intelligence from, quote,
a historically reliable and accurate source or method that several key facilities were destroyed and it would take years to rebuild them,
which is much closer to how President Trump has been describing it than other outside experts.
and that earlier assessment that leaked to journalists.
I should say it is unusual for the CIA to put out any public statements on such sensitive matters.
In addition, battle damage assessments can take many days or weeks,
so it's unusual to have it so quickly.
NPR's Tamara Keith reporting.