The White House is desperate to portray last week’s bombing campaign in Iran as an unquestionable and overwhelming success.

So much so that when a leaked preliminary intelligence report suggested Iran was neither committed to making a nuclear weapon, nor did the “bunker busters” the US dropped actually “obliterate” the facilities in question, they decided to smear the reporter.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt spent two minutes of her roughly 30-minute briefing on Thursday assailing the credibility of CNN’s Natasha Bertrand, using the extended rant to call........

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