President Trump said that whoever leaked a low-confidence Defense Intelligence Agency report on the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities “should be prosecuted.”
A leaked report claimed that the U.S. strike only set back Iran’s program by a few months. U.S. officials have said the nuclear sites were destroyed and it would take years for Iran to rebuild them.
News outlets like CNN and The New York Times published the findings in the leaked report.
Trump suggested compelling the journalists who publicly reported on the leaked intelligence to reveal their source for national security reasons.
“They should be prosecuted,” the president said on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo when asked about finding who was behind the leak.
“We can find out. If they want to, we can find out easily. You go up and tell the reporter, ‘National security, who gave it [to you]?’ You have to do that, and I suspect we’ll be doing things like that,” he added.
