This mainstream article exposes the schism. First note: the mainstream is not clever enough to paper over it.

CIA says Iran’s nuclear program ‘severely damaged’ by U.S. strikes President Donald Trump dismissed an earlier Defense Intelligence Agency assessment as inconclusive and premature. (NBC News 6/25/2025)

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday credible intelligence indicated that Iran’s nuclear program was “severely damaged” in recent U.S. airstrikes and that several key sites were “destroyed.”

A Defense Intelligence Agency initial assessment leaked Tuesday found that the U.S. bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites may have set back the country's nuclear program by only several months, a more limited impact than President Donald Trump stated after the strikes.

To properly analyze this, we have to put a black box around it and look at the effect it's having outside of that box.

DIA wants to maintain Israel's pretext for striking Iran in the first place, which ignited a war that was, in fact, ended by the US bombing itself.

As a separate issue, do I think that bombing actually took place? No, I do not, not at all. A complete fiction. Nor is it hard to figure out, and I conclude all these military/intelligence types know it well. I stipulate that people who should know better yet announce otherwise are lying.

This is, of course, something to be aware of as to a general understanding of the world and how it works, but the black box goes around that too. What actually took place is unimportant for the vast majority of the population, but only what they believe took place.

Back outside the box, Trump, Gabbard, Hegseth, and the CIA are saying Iran's nuclear program is done into the foreseeable future and the whole thing is over. No more military action by anyone is warranted. This brings a crisis: anyone who maintains otherwise must declare or imply that these others are incompetent or lying.

The DIA has already broken cover to do so. I concluded long ago that General Michael Flynn, late of the DIA, was a Deep State plant. A few others have finally started to get that. I thought he was an anomaly that just happened to be at the DIA, but now I conclude it is just another nest.

The next significant move is for Bibi to make. Maybe he'll say something like, "Hey you lying American dumdums, back my play as I continue this war." Sounds ridiculous, but (((they))) are usually willing to say anything as long as they can say more later.