Senators receive delayed Iran briefing as Democrats rage over lack of transparency | US Congress

The US senators receive a secret briefing about Donald Trump’s bombing Iran’s nuclear areas after the White House suddenly postponed the session and restricts intelligence sharing with the congress.

The delayed session with the senior national security officials came back after the White House has taken back the planned briefing of Tuesday, after Trump fueled the democratic complaints carrying Stonewall Congress on the military action that the Congress authorized without congress approval.

“Senators deserve full transparency, and the administration has a legal obligation to inform the Congress about exactly what is happening,” Senate has a legal obligation.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe is believed to direct Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directing the briefing to the senators behind closed doors. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard seems to be excluded from the session, although Iran is planned to appear during the original meeting weeks weeks after witnessing that it did not build a nuclear weapon.

Intelligence organizations appear in a clear dispute about the effectiveness of strikes. The leaked draft Pentagon report found that Iran’s nuclear program returned only for months and contradicted the total destruction of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gabbard and Ratcliffe returned to Trump with Gabbard on Wednesday Sending to x “The new intelligence confirmed that Potus has stated many times: Iran’s nuclear facilities were destroyed.”

The ranking of the home intelligence committee, Democrat Jim Himes rejected destruction allegations as meaningless. “The only question is whether the Iranian regime has the necessary things to build a bomb, and if so, how fast it is,” he said.

The destruction response listed republican senators in the party’s anti -interventionist wing, such as Rand Paul, who rejected the claims of the Absolute Presidency of war forces.

Orum I think the speaker should review the constitution, Pa said Paul. “And I think there are many evidence that our founding fathers do not want the presidents to go to war unilaterally.”

The Senate is expected to vote on a decision that requires the approval of Congress for future military action against Iran this week, but it does not seem likely to take the measure when the republican control of the room is taken into consideration.

The White House admitted that after the news leaked in the draft assessment on Thursday, he limited the sharing of intelligence. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, journalists today, the administration today “classified intelligence does not result in irresponsible hands,” he said. Leavitt later said that the US evaluated that there is no symptom.

In a short letter sent on Monday two days after the bombing, Trump officially reported to the strikes congress and the action “to advance the vital US national interests and eliminates Iran’s nuclear program in the mass defense of Israel.

The administration says that the private ambassador Steve Witkoff remains on a diplomatic path with Iran through communication with the Iranian authorities.