White House moves to limit sharing of some classified info with Congress after Iran leak

The Trump administration is planning to limit the amount of classified information it shares with Congress moving forward amid uproar over an internal preliminary assessment that found U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities may not have been as devastating as the president claimed.

The move is prompting Democratic pushback from those who argue it would be unwise to restrict congressional access based on suspicion. A White House official confirmed the decision, which was first reported by Axios. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced earlier Wednesday that the Pentagon was launching an investigation into the leak of the assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

“I am told by the FBI the leak already is being investigated, and it absolutely should be because this was a top secret intelligence analysis that very few people in the United States government had access to see,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Fox News Wednesday.  (Read More)