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From a former intelligence

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:36:03 +0000

In reply to Over two days, Trump has gone

From a former intelligence officer who knows how this works. And to Marc’s point, note this from our story. https://t.co/pP5tZH8o2a pic.twitter.com/KPIgfMbQxG
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) January 11, 2020

Over two days, Trump has gone

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:30:16 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

Over two days, Trump has gone from 1) not mentioning embassies to 2) saying it was the embassy in Baghdad to 3) saying it was embassies plural to 4) saying it was four embassies. https://t.co/tohWojLAMY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 10, 2020

Dana Milbank @ WaPo:

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 04:07:14 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

Dana Milbank @ WaPo:

Now Mike Lee knows what it feels like:For his troubles, Lee was described as “Benedict Arnold” by Trump-allied Fox Business host Lou Dobbs. Fox News itself cut away from Lee’s remarks criticizing the briefing https://t.co/5qr0GTDurV
— Mike "moo Nunes" Confoy (@mikelotus) January 11, 2020

Justin Amash:

artappraiser — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:39:27 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

Justin Amash:

Matt Gaetz hasn’t changed his position on war powers. He had the same position when President Obama was in office. It’s the constitutionally conservative position.

For that—for consistency—he faces the GOP’s wrath. Only Trump matters. Even the Trumpiest congressman gets no pass. https://t.co/3jWChWW4oc
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) January 11, 2020

Dem senators say Iran threat

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:19:01 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

Dem senators say Iran threat to embassies not mentioned by Trump admin in intelligence briefing https://t.co/QBtbJsocHJ pic.twitter.com/Tsmj6fnvEC
— The Hill (@thehill) January 10, 2020

GOP senator who erupted over

artappraiser — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 05:09:52 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

GOP senator who erupted over Iran briefing shares awful new details

by Greg Sargent @ WashingtonPost.com, Jan. 9, 10:05 am

If President Trump made the decision to assassinate the supreme leader of Iran, would he need to come to Congress to get authorization for it?

The Trump administration won’t say.

That remarkable claim is now being made by a Republican senator — Mike Lee of Utah. He offered it in a new interview with NPR, in which he shared fresh details about why he erupted in anger on Wednesday over the briefing Congress received from the administration on Iran [....]

Now, in the interview with NPR’s Rachel Martin, Lee has gone into more alarming detail. Lee reiterated that officials “were unable or unwilling to identify any point” at which they’d come to Congress for authorization for the use of military force. Then this exchange happened:

MARTIN: What kind of hypotheticals were you putting to them in hopes of understanding when the administration sees a need for Congressional authority?

LEE: As I recall, one of my colleagues asked a hypothetical involving the Supreme Leader of Iran: If at that point, the United States government decided that it wanted to undertake a strike against him personally, recognizing that he would be a threat to the United States, would that require authorization for the use of military force?

The fact that there was nothing but a refusal to answer that question was perhaps the most deeply upsetting thing to me in that meeting.

Obviously, this was an extreme hypothetical. But the point of it was to discern the contours of the administration’s sense of its own obligation to come to Congress for approval of future hostilities. And it succeeded in doing just that, demonstrating that they recognize no such obligation [....]

Paul fires back at Graham

artappraiser — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:30:35 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

Paul fires back at Graham over Iran criticism: 'He insults the Constitution'

By Jordain Carney @ TheHill.com - 01/08/20 07:53 PM EST

Sen. Rand Paul(R-Ky.) fired back at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after the South Carolina Republican accused him of emboldening Iran, saying Graham "insults the Constitution" and is making a "low, gutter type of response."

Graham told reporters on Wednesday that he thought Paul and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) were "overreacting" by criticizing comments made during a closed-door Iran briefing.

"They're libertarians," Graham said. "I think they're overreacting, quite frankly [.....]

another quote Daragahi found

artappraiser — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:08:43 +0000

In reply to Trump officials give 'worst briefing in history' about Iran attack, leaving even Republicans fuming

another quote Daragahi found tweetable:

“It was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing. I believe the administration is after the fact trying to piece together a rationale for its action that was impulsive, reckless and put this country’s security at risk.” https://t.co/NxJop36KGd
— Borzou Daragahi (@borzou) January 9, 2020