In the past year, Trump has stepped up a legal campaign against major media outlets including CBS, leading some First Amendment experts to decry his use of legal threats and lawsuits to tie up and intimidate newsrooms. This week's legal letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Trump's personal attorneys, alleged that June 24 stories by CNN and The Times were false and defamatory. The stories described an early US intelligence assessment of the strikes that was at odds with Trump's insistence that Iran's nuclear enrichment sites were "completely and totally obliterated." Administration officials confirmed the existence of the intel but claimed the assessment was of low confidence and asserted that it was leaked to undercut the president. Several officials have vowed to conduct leak investigations, and Trump has said any the leakers "should be prosecuted." Trump also responded by attacking CNN and The Times in highly personal terms.