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| GOP Sen. Mike Lee's shorts in a wad over Soleimani briefing | ||
| 2020-01-09 | ||
| [FOX] Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee declared in a heated press conference Wednesday afternoon that national security officials had just delivered the "worst military briefing" he had ever seen on Capitol Hill, even claiming that one official had warned during the "lame" and "insane" meeting that Congress shouldn't debate whether additional military action against Iran would be appropriate. Democrats piled on, with Virginia Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly calling the briefing "sophomoric and utterly unconvincing." Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, for her part, asserted that she has been "stricken with PTSD" due to recent developments and condemned President Trump's new sanctions against Iran as "economic warfare." (Omar and her family fled war-torn Somalia and spent years in a refugee camp. She also openly supports sanctions against Israel.) Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., called Omar's comments "a disgrace and offensive to our nation’s veterans who really do have PTSD," prompting Omar to respond, "I survived war as a child and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder‐much like many who have served or lived through war. It’s shameful that you as a member of Congress would erase the PTSD of survivors." Amid the melee, Lee made clear that his response was directed primarily at the classified briefing for lawmakers on the Iran situation and not the White House's Iran policy generally. But, he said, the slapdash sit-down would have consequences. "I want to state at the outset: I support President Trump," Lee began,
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 #1 - So, IOW, they're such a bunch of clowns that they cannot be trusted with the good stuff and must settle for the kind of information the rest of us can get from CBS? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-01-09 12:59 |
| #5 Senators Flake. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-09 11:42 |
| #4 Lee and Rand Paul look stupid going all over the map. Paul went from infuriated at the Soliemani strike to thrilled at Trump not escalating to moping about this classified briefing. At step two I was starting to like him again, he burned that in only a few hours. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-09 08:04 |
| #3 “Absolutely, Positively False” – Senator Lankford DESTROYS Turncoat Sen. Mike Lee on Bogus Meltdown following Today’s Iran Briefing A senator from LSD Utah, who's a grandstanding demagogue? Where have I heard that before? Also famous for putting foreign workers before US workers. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-01-09 01:24 |
| #2 Can anyone any longer deny that our esteemed national representatives are just actors in a total, complete utter Shitshow? |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-09 01:11 |
| #1 It is likely Senator Lee and the rest received a collateral level briefing, a briefing with no special access caveats. Simply having a TS/SCI and sitting in a SCIF doesn't cut it. Please, please spare us the notion that Rep. Ilhan Omar and others of a like mind, need to be 'read-on' to special access programs. Get a fok'n grip senator. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-09 01:07 |