http://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/06/26/nicholas-fondacaro-receipts-cnn-lied-low-confidence-intelligence-n2414791
CNN has been in full cover up mode trying to diffuse the criticism for their 'intelligence leak' on the effects of the Iran bombing. Most people don't have 24 hours a day to watch the station and keep track of what they said and what they didn't say. Thankfully, Nicholas Fondacaro was kind enough to compile it and put it in a tweet thread. Spread it wide and far.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ WATCH CNN LIE: CNN "journalists" parrot each other as they falsely claim Natasha Bertrand's initial reporting the Iran strike leak included the facts that it was a "low confidence" and "preliminary" report.
Kate Bolduan proclaims: "... about it being low confidence. CNN reported on all of on all of this. I was looking back just to make sure that we had it. All throughout the reporting process, CNN had reported that it is preliminary ..."
"It's in there," Sara Sidner smugly added.
NO, IT WAS NOT, as this thread will prove.
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1938241402887975045
What is truly laughable is that this "story" came from a well-known, notorious liar by the name of Natasha Bertrand whose "sources" are ridiculously lame. One of the things she is infamous for is the "Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation" BS and the "51 intelligence officers" who supported that fantasy.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ Using the Wayback Machine, you can see that the initial report pushed by Bertrand on Tuesday does not have the words "low confidence" nor "preliminary."
The only times the word "low" is even used was White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt telling CNN the leak came from "an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community," and the assertion that the bombs "would likely not successfully penetrate Isfahan’s lower levels."
http://web.archive.org/web/20250624190617/https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites
Democrats and their lickspittles always conveniently forget that the Internet is forever.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ Those words don't appear in any version of the article until Wednesday afternoon when they quote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's criticisms of the assessment: "Hegseth, who is also at the NATO summit, said Wednesday the assessment was 'a top secret report; it was preliminary; it was low confidence;' adding that there were political motives behind leaking it and that an FBI investigation was underway to identify the leaker."
http://web.archive.org/web/20250625145734/https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites
So, the first time it is mentioned is when Secretary Hegseth pushes back. Not before then.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ Here's Bertrand's initial appearance on CNN to push her story.
Again, nowhere does she use the words "low confidence" or "preliminary."
In fact, she implies just the opposite, proclaiming with confidence: "And so it appears that while these bombs did in fact inflict significant damage on the above-ground structures at these nuclear facilities, the most sensitive and core parts of the nuclear program, which include the centrifuges, which include the highly enriched uranium, those do not appear to have been severely impacted, if impacted at all, with one of our sources who has seen the assessment describing all of those core components as largely intact."
Video ~ http://x.com/i/status/1938247008638169308
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ This initial on-air report from Bertrand happened on Tuesday afternoon.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ Proof @CNN is lying that they said strike assessment was 'low confidence.'
Video ~ http://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1938270371574067200/SMIJjA-i?format=jpg&;name=small
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/06/26/update-proof-cnn-lying-they-said-strike-assessment-was-low
Listen closely. You'll never hear that caveat.
Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) ~ And, if CNN tries to edit out Bertrand from their in-house transcripts page, I have it saved on the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20250626164138/https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/cnc/date/2025-06-24/segment/11
Nicholas has those receipts on lock down.
ANJI USA PASSION (@usa_anji) ~ CNN lost credibility years ago. No matter how much they get pissed off that the American public doesn't trust them, until they can look in the mirror and answer to themselves why, they'll keep f****** up.
Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) ~ That's a very cute sleight of hand. She goes from saying they reported it was "low confidence" (they didn't) to claiming that the use of the term "preliminary" was sufficient to communicate that (it wasn't). It'd be too much for them to just admit they misled people.
Misleading the public is what CNN does ... it is a leftist propaganda network.
They are hoping viewers aren't paying attention.
Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) ~ I watched a bunch of @CNN that day, and don't recall them ever saying it was "low confidence."
Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) ~ The GOP has made a critical change dealing with the media and Trump deserves a lot of credit for that change. No more whining about “hypocrisy” or “bias.” That does nothing. Call them evil, stupid liars to their faces and put them on the defense. Treat your enemy like an enemy.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the woketard, Democrat-loving media outlets and newspapers ARE the enemies of the American People.
Treat them like an enemy and prove them wrong at every turn.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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